Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
(Part of the Software Studies Series)
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What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough -- or should we look further? In Expressive Processing , Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential. Wardrip-Fruin looks at "expressive processing" by examining specific works of digital media ranging from the simulated therapist Eliza to the complex city-planning game SimCity . Digital media, he contends, offer particularly intelligible examples of things we need to understand about software in general; if we understand, for instance, the capabilities and histories of artificial intelligence techniques in the context of a computer game, we can use that understanding to judge the use of similar techniques in such higher-stakes social contexts as surveillance.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262013436
ISBN13:9780262013437
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:482 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 7.3" x 9.2"
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