Janet H. Murray is een vooraanstaand professor wiens werk de kruising van technologie en cultuur onderzoekt. Ze duikt in de principes van interactieontwerp en onderzoekt de diepgaande impact ervan als culturele praktijk. Murray's geschriften belichten hoe digitale media onze kijk op de wereld en onze betrokkenheid daarbij vormgeven. Haar academische werk biedt kritische inzichten in de evoluerende relatie tussen mensen en de technologieën die zij creëren.
This reader compiles rare texts, videos, and programs that trace the development of new media, featuring contributions from notable figures like Borges, Turing, and McLuhan. It includes historical context and significance, alongside a CD with early games, digital art, and key video documentation of pioneering media works.
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.