{"595850":{"#nid":"595850","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u201cHamlet on the Holodeck,\u201d Twenty Years Later","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJanet Murray\u0026rsquo;s seminal book\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;\u003Ca class=\u0022ArticleBody__link___1FS03\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com\/x\/c\/QlQkm1uTZCv7y04lu4kz2ZIAAAFee4ugSAEAAAFKAU9ajnw\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hamlet-Holodeck-Future-Narrative-Cyberspace\/dp\/0262533480\/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0262533480\u0026amp;linkCode=w50\u0026amp;tag=thneyo0f-20\u0026amp;imprToken=xqe5v8FEk0cDGpJyOqv1xw\u0026amp;slotNum=0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHamlet on the Holodeck\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; was evaluated retrospectively in \u003Cem\u003EThe New Yorker\u003C\/em\u003E \u0026#39;s August 30 article\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;\u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/hamlet-on-the-holodeck-twenty-years-later\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHamlet on the Holodeck,\u0026rdquo; Twenty Years Later\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; Murray is professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the media scholar Janet H. Murray was asked to write a new preface to \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca class=\u0022ArticleBody__link___1FS03\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com\/x\/c\/QlQkm1uTZCv7y04lu4kz2ZIAAAFee4ugSAEAAAFKAU9ajnw\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hamlet-Holodeck-Future-Narrative-Cyberspace\/dp\/0262533480\/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0262533480\u0026amp;linkCode=w50\u0026amp;tag=thneyo0f-20\u0026amp;imprToken=xqe5v8FEk0cDGpJyOqv1xw\u0026amp;slotNum=0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHamlet on the Holodeck\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; her influential book, from 1997, about digital narrative, she was tempted to make it three words long: \u0026ldquo;I was right!\u0026rdquo; Depending on how generous you want to be, you could say that she predicted the constructive pleasures of Minecraft, the frustrations of Apple\u0026rsquo;s Siri, and the social story-worlds of massive multi-player online role-playing games (M.M.O.R.P.G.s). Her over-all argument was simple: though there is a tendency to think of the computer as \u0026ldquo;the enemy of the book,\u0026rdquo; it is in fact \u0026ldquo;the child of print culture,\u0026rdquo; a powerful representational medium of its own that promises to continue the evolution of storytelling and \u0026ldquo;reshape the spectrum of narrative expression.\u0026rdquo; Books are good at delivering essentially linear stories, she insists, while computers are good at telling stories of a different kind: procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article on \u0026ldquo;\u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/hamlet-on-the-holodeck-twenty-years-later\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHamlet on the Holodeck,\u0026rdquo; Twenty Years Later\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo;, visit The New Yorker\u0026#39;s website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-09-13 14:10:25","changed_gmt":"2017-09-20 14:19:07","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Acinetobacter baumannii","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/hamlet-on-the-holodeck-twenty-years-later","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588123":{"id":"588123","type":"image","title":"Janet Murray","body":null,"created":"1488319813","gmt_created":"2017-02-28 22:10:13","changed":"1488319813","gmt_changed":"2017-02-28 22:10:13","alt":"Janet Murray","file":{"fid":"224134","name":"JanetMurrayWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":64863,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb.jpg?itok=jj3kQ30O"}}},"media_ids":["588123"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6827","name":"hamlet"},{"id":"175508","name":"Holodeck"},{"id":"175509","name":"Twenty Years"},{"id":"175510","name":"digital media scholars"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}