Hamlet on the holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace / Janet H. Murray.

By:

Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: spaeng Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]Description: xii, 324 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0262631873 (pb : alk. paper)
8449307651

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809 MUR

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	809 MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000194358

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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).