Another book to read
A postmodern analysis of Pavel Curtis' authored virtual world: LambdaMOO.
tagged MOO MUD interactive_fiction lambdaMOO video_games virtual_reality
by mhighlan
...on 13-DEC-05
An analysis following the idea that all narrative experience, on a cognitive level, can be thought of as virtual realities...
tagged Marie_Laure_Ryan immerision interactive_literature narrative narratology ontology video_games virtual_reality
by mhighlan
...on 13-DEC-05
Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners--people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think--about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world.

