12 Facts About Janet Murray

Janet Horowitz Murray was born on 1946 and is an American professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Janet Murray is well known as an early developer of humanities computing applications, a seminal theorist of digital media, and an advocate of new educational programs in digital media.

Janet Murray designed projects include a digital edition of the Warner Brothers classic, Casablanca.

Janet Murray works extensively as a member of Georgia Tech's Experimental Game Lab and is an advisor to Georgia Tech's Mobile Technology Group.

Janet Murray's analysis rests on an understanding of the computer as a medium of representation with a distinct set of properties.

Janet Murray argues that the computer is procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial, and that it affords three characteristic pleasures: immersion, agency, and transformation.

Janet Murray defines interactivity as the combination of the procedural and the participatory property which together afford the pleasure of agency.

Janet Murray connects research work on artificial intelligence with cultural forms such as games, movies, literature, and television.

Janet Murray's work has been referenced by game designers, interactive television producers, filmmakers, and journalists.

Janet Murray has been described as a narratologist as she advocates for storytelling in gameplay.

Janet Murray has an active role in developing two new degree programs at Georgia Tech which were launched in 2004: the Ph.

Janet Murray was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2007 to 2013.