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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262517531

ISBN-139780262517539

eBay Product ID (ePID)111041205

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Number of Pages504 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameExpressive Processing : Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

SubjectProgramming / Games, Computer Simulation, Digital Media / General, General, Video & Electronic, Interactive & Multimedia, Virtual Worlds

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

AuthorNoah Wardrip-Fruin

Subject AreaComputers, Games & Activities

SeriesSoftware Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight27.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.1 in

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ReviewsIn Wardrip-Fruin"s Expressive Processing , the field of "interactive entertainment" comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, rather than borrowed from literature, film, or history....Required reading., I highly recommend this book to digital media -- games, movies, and fiction -- creators, AI students, and engineers., "The perfect volume to begin the new publication series in software studies.... Inspiring." Raine Koskima Game Studies, Through insightful examinations of media ranging from simulations to computer games, the author presents an intriguing and cogent argument.... Recommended., Wardrip-Fruin has given us an arsenal of rhetorical firepower and a powerful set of examples for how one might teach algorithmic literacy across the curriculum without delving into the syntax of any particular programming language., I highly recommend this book to digital media--games, movies, and fiction--creators, AI students, and engineers., In Wardrip-Fruin"s Expressive Processing , the field of 'interactive entertainment' comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, rather than borrowed from literature, film, or history....Required reading., "I highly recommend this book to digital media -- games, movies, and fiction --creators, AI students, and engineers." Irtaza Barlas Computing Reviews, "Wardrip-Fruin has given us an arsenal of rhetorical firepower and a powerful set of examples for how one might teach algorithmic literacy across the curriculum without delving into the syntax of any particular programming language." Doug Reside Digital Humanities Quarterly, "Through insightful examinations of media ranging from simulations to computer games,the author presents an intriguing and cogent argument.... Recommended." Albert Chen Choice, In Wardrip-Fruin's Expressive Processing , the field of 'interactive entertainment' comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, rather than borrowed from literature, film, or history....Required reading., "The perfect volume to begin the new publication series in software studies....Inspiring." Raine Koskima Game Studies, "In Wardrip-Fruin"s Expressive Processing , the field of "interactive entertainment" comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, rather than borrowed from literature, film, or history....Required reading." Annette Vee JAC, "Through insightful examinations of media ranging from simulations to computer games, the author presents an intriguing and cogent argument.... Recommended." Albert Chen Choice, "I highly recommend this book to digital media -- games, movies, and fiction -- creators, AI students, and engineers." Irtaza Barlas Computing Reviews, "Wardrip-Fruin has given us an arsenal of rhetorical firepower and a powerful set ofexamples for how one might teach algorithmic literacy across the curriculum without delving into thesyntax of any particular programming language." Doug Reside Digital Humanities Quarterly, "In Wardrip-Fruin"s Expressive Processing , the field of"interactive entertainment" comes of age; its theories and methods are native to its medium, ratherthan borrowed from literature, film, or history....Required reading." Annette Vee JAC

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal006.7

SynopsisFrom 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., From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media., 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.

LC Classification NumberQA76.76.I59.W37 2012