Janet H. Murray

Hamlet on the Holodeck

The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stories define how we think, play, and understand our lives. In this comprehensive and readable book already a classic statement of the aesthetics of digital media, acclaimed by practitioners and theorists alike Janet Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by. Murray discusses the unique properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative. She analyzes the dramatic satisfaction of participatory stories and considers what would be necessary to move interactive fiction from the formats of childish games and confusing labyrinths into a mature and compelling art form. Through a blend of imagination and techno-wizardry, Murray provides both readers and writers with a guide to the storytelling of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press / The MIT Press
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780262631877
• ISBN-10: 0262631873
• Artikelnr.: 22208431

Autorenporträt

Janet H. Murray is Ivan Allen College Dean's Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (MIT Press).

Rezensionen

[A] brilliant look at the future of storytelling. James Coates, The Chicago Tribune

Hamlet on the Holodeck reaches beyond the scope of interactive narrative and encompasses the global possibilities of emerging technologies.

Stan Diehl , BYTE