Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies - Brossura

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah

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ISBN 10: 0262517531 ISBN 13: 9780262517539

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 2012

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262517531
• ISBN 13: 9780262517539
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 504
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile