lev manovich

Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.

Gonzalo Frasca's proposal for videogames that address "critical thinking, education, tolerance, and other trivial issues."

Jill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.

Matthew Kirschenbaum rethinks the final section of First Person in light of "five basic strategies for furthering the history of reading."

A call for (and example of) material studies of software from Matt Kirschenbaum, spurred by the Digital Arts and Culture conference, 2000.