I’m still on a semi-enforced vacation from academia, but I couldn’t resist reading some of the essays found on electronic book review. The essays are a selection from two MIT Press books, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game and Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. There are a bunch of interesting essays (and some not-so-interesting ones, I’m sure), on topics ranging from IF to WoW to more general ruminations on narrative, stories, gaming in general:
