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New ebookonly edition revised for 2016 with over 10,000 words of new content in the form of chapterbychapter commentary, with new examples and useful web links illustrative of the enduring principles of design that have been validated by multiple communities of practice from game designers to digital journalists to vr developers since 1997 when it first. This book is an attempt to imagine a future digital medium, shaped by the hackers spirit and the enduring power of the imagination and worthy of the rapture our children are bringing to it. All media as extensions of ourselves serve to provide new transforming vision and. Janet murray is a professor in the school of literature, media, and communication at the georgia institute of technology. In hamlet on the holodeck, i pointed out that the soliloquy that shakespeare uses in hamlet to explore the isolation of the modern consciousness and depths of his tragic heros selfdoubts, began as a stage device for letting the audience in on the evil intentions of the villains in the bloody, formulaic genre of the revenge play which. Hamlet on the holodeck, updated edition the mit press. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws.
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