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

by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Book Overview

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...

• 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"