Submitted by lobster_king on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 14:30.
Janet Murray defines the "four essential properties of digital environments" (p71 of 'From Additive to Expressive Form') as being able to "separately and collectively make [the computer] a powerful vehicle for literary creation" in which the digital environments are marked by "procedural, participatory, spatial, and encyclopedic" elements (classified into "interactive" and "immersive" categories). I think there might be one more 'property,' but I'm not sure if it's necessarily 'essential' (perhaps it's 'inevitable'?) – and, well, a lot of the discussion that could be made for or against Murray or myself kind of depends on certain definitions of words or concepts. read more »
