First Person

New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

331 pages, parution le 27/04/2004

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Résumé

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." Yet it is widely believed that the market for electronic literature -- predicted by some to be the future of the written word -- languishes. Even bestselling author Stephen King achieved disappointing results with his online publication of "Riding the Bullet" and "The Plant."

Isn't it possible, though, that many hugely successful computer games -- those that depend on or at least utilize storytelling conventions of narrative, character, and theme -- can be seen as examples of electronic literature? And isn't it likely that the truly significant new forms of electronic literature will prove to be (like games) so deeply interactive and procedural that it would be impossible to present them as paper-like "e-books"? The editors of First Person have gathered a remarkably diverse group of new media theorists and practitioners to consider the relationship between "story" and "game," as well as the new kinds of artistic creation (literary, performative, playful) that have become possible in the digital environment.

This landmark collection is organized as a series of discussions among creators and theorists; each section includes three presentations, with each presentation followed by two responses. Topics considered range from "Cyberdrama" to "Ludology" (the study of games), to "The Pixel/The Line" to "Beyond Chat." The conversational structure inspired contributors to revise, update, and expand their presentations as they prepared them for the book, and the panel discussions have overflowed into a First Person web site (created in conjunction with the online journal Electronic Book Review).

L'auteur - Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a creative writing fellow at Brown University.

Sommaire

Cyberdrama
Ludology
Critical Simulation
Game Theories
Hypertexts & Interactives
The Pixel/The Line
Beyond Chat
New Readings

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Parution	27/04/2004
Nb. de pages	331
Format	21 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	775g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262232326