Expressive Processing : Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies is a digital media

Digital media

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analog) form. It can refer to the technical aspect of...

 textbook

Textbook

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 authored by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio. He is an alumnus of the Literary Arts MFA program and Special Graduate Study PhD program at Brown University...

 and published through The MIT Press

MIT Press

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. Throughout the book Wardrip-Fruin takes a look into "expressive processing" elements that part take in digital media. Wardrip-Fruin attempts to explain expressive processing through the ELIZA effect

ELIZA effect

The ELIZA effect, in computer science, is the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors.In its specific form, the ELIZA effect refers only to "the susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted into strings of symbols —...

, The Tale-Spin Effect, The SimCity Effect, and many other elements of interactive digital media.

External links

• Expressive Processing on MIT press
• Google Book version of Expressive Processing