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Expressive Processing

Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies is a digital media textbook authored by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and published through the MIT Press. Throughout the book Wardrip-Fruin takes a look into "expressive processing" elements that partake in digital media. Wardrip-Fruin attempts to explain expressive processing through the ELIZA effect, The Tale-Spin Effect, The SimCity Effect, and many other elements of interactive digital media.

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Expressive Processing
AuthorNoah Wardrip-Fruin
LanguageEnglish
GenreTextbook
PublisherMIT Press
Publication date
2009
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages480
ISBN978-0-262-01343-7

Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies is a digital media textbook authored by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and published through the MIT Press. Throughout the book Wardrip-Fruin takes a look into "expressive processing" elements that partake in digital media.1 Wardrip-Fruin attempts to explain expressive processing through the ELIZA effect, The Tale-Spin Effect, The SimCity Effect, and many other elements of interactive digital media.

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  1. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. "Expressive Processing". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
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