Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
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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Рік:
2012
Видавництво:
The MIT Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
504
ISBN 10:
0262517531
ISBN 13:
9780262013437
Файл:
PDF, 4.08 MB
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english, 2012