Expressive Processing
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
Seiten
2009
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-01343-7 (ISBN)
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-01343-7 (ISBN)
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From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.
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.
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.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he codirects the Expressive Intelligent Studio. He is the author of Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Software Studies |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung |
| Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI) | |
| Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-01343-6 / 0262013436 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-01343-7 / 9780262013437 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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