First person : new media as story, performance, and game / edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 2003Description: p. cm001: 9553ISBN: 0262232324Subject(s): Computer and video games | Narration | New mediaDDC classification: 794.8 WARItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on 'Monopoly' or even on 'Magic: the Gathering'.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Dedication and Acknowledgments (p. x)
- Introduction (p. xi)
- Contributors (p. xiii)
- I Cyberdrama (p. 1)
- II Ludology (p. 35)
- III Critical Simulation (p. 71)
- IV Game Theories (p. 117)
- V Hypertexts & Interactives (p. 165)
- VI The Pixel/The Line (p. 207)
- VII Beyond Chat (p. 237)
- VIII New Readings (p. 289)
- Permissions (p. 319)
- Index (p. 321)
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CHOICE Review
A fairly new area of academic study, "new media" is just beginning to find its structure and place both historically and academically. Offering a volume that begins to question the boundaries that define literature, Wardrip-Fruin and Harrigan have collected essays that look at the relationships between new media and storytelling, between game and performance. The volume's contributors--who include theorists and practitioners, both major and less-known players in the field--take on such subjects as "cyberdrama," "ludology," critical simulation, game theories, "hypertext and interactives," to cite just a few of the essay subjects. Created in conjunction with the online journal Electronic Book Review, the book promises a Web site to further the interesting discussion offered here. However, the choice of black and white for illustrations gives the book a dated air and seems odd in this discussion of the newest form of media. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. J. V. Trieschman formerly, Marian CollegeThere are no comments on this title.
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