Talk:Janet Murray

Position at MIT
To the best of my knowledge, Janet Murray was not a professor at MIT before taking a faculty position at Georgia Tech.

Nowhere does anyone say that she was ever a professor at MIT, only that she 'taught humanities' there. Additionally, official MIT publications refer to her as "Dr. Murray", not "Professor Murray".

Excerpts of her biography on the inside cover of Hamlet in the Holodeck:

"Janet H. Murray is Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. She holds a Ph.D in English from Harvard and teaches interactive fiction writing in MIT's Film and Media Studies Program."

"She has taught humanities at MIT since 1971, and she served from 1992 to 1996 as the founding director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities."

From her homepage:

"She holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, and before coming to Georgia Tech in 1999 taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects at MIT."

From the 1994-1995 Reports to the President: "Dr. Janet Murray (Senior Research Scientist), Gilberte Furstenberg (Senior Lecturer in French), Douglas Morgenstern (Senior Lecturer in Spanish), and Professor Suzanne Flynn (who specializes in Linguistics and English as a Second Language), all from the Foreign Languages and Literature Section, and former CECI staff members Evelyn Schlusselberg and Ben Davis developed these applications. Much of this research continues in the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, a research group under the direction of Dr. Murray that is affiliated with CECI."

From the 1998-1999 Reports to the President: "CECI offered two short courses: the first, offered by Dr. Jud Harward and Prof. Steven Lerman focused on the Java Programming Language; the second course, offered by Dr. Janet Murray, was on The Design Of Interactive Software Applications."

"Dr. Janet Murray, a Senior Research Scientist at CECI, will leave MIT this summer to take a senior faculty position at Georgia Tech. Her expertise in the area of interactive design and her close ties to the School of Humanities will leave a considerable gap in CECI's staff. She will hold an MIT appointment as Visting Scholar."


 * Crap. You're right. I was stupidly confusing her PhD in English with her department at MIT when I first wrote the article, and then just assumed I was right later on. Good catch, sorry to revert you. Snowspinner 03:35, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Murray corrects own article
I have revised this page about myself to more accurately summarize my book and the response to it. On my first try I appended my changes but this time I got it right and replaced the previous entry with this partial rewrite. It is odd to come across an encyclopedia entry to oneself and hard to judge what is appropriate to say. I did want the key arguments of the book to be clearly stated, and I thought the original longer critique of the book was too vague to engage, especially in a biographical entry. I added a reference to second public discourse about the book (Sven Birkerts debate with me, on http://hotwired.com) in addition to the ludologists and I pointed to a key source for the ludologist use of the book in the first issue of Game Studies (http://www.gamestudies.org ). I meant to be neutral and non-self-promoting and I hope I succeeded. THanks to Snowspinner for including me. I'm glad to see a section on digital media criticism. I think it will be quite useful. Janet Murray April 21 2005.


 * The link to the Birkerts debate no longer works. I have been unable to find this debate anywhere else on the web, only snippets in caches and references to it.

Grammatical Errors
Going through your article I found a few minor literary errors. First of all, you stated in the introduction that the "New Media Reader" is "...an anthology of articles on the new media which Janet was the first of the two introduction in the book..." I believe what you meant to state is "...Janet was the first of the two introduction[s] in the book..." Also, towards the end of this section you revealed, "...Murray also has an active role in developing two new degree programs at Georgia Tech which was launched in 2004." I feel that the proper phrasing reads, "...two new degree programs at Georgia Tech which [were] launched in 2004." RazorXX8 (talk) 03:59, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Photo
A bio photo is needed. Accosta2, are you out there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xmarkmanx (talk • contribs) 10:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

There is a photo of herself on her website (http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/jhm05.jpg). Is it OK to use that? --Jogjayr (talk) 23:32, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Clarification About The Four Properties
I believe it is important to clarify some information about Murray's four properties (procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial).

Currently, regarding these properties, the article only elaborates on the encyclopedic property, saying that it has "the most significance in influence" among the four.

From the same reference (page 6 of The New Media Reader), I found that:

- The encyclopedic property is the most "obvious".

- The procedural and participatory properties are the most "fundamental".

Additionally, in another reference (page 274 of Murray's book, Hamlet on he Holodeck), it says that:

- The procedural property is the most "important".

(Full quote: "The most important element the new medium adds to our repertoire of representational powers is its procedural nature, its ability to capture experience as systems of interrelated actions.")

I think the article should reflect this fundamental information.

(This is the first time I contribute to an article on wikipedia. I wasn't sure if I should suggest the edit directly on the article, so I decided to propose this here in the Talk page instead. I made my best to follow the guidelines and keep a clear formatting. If I made any mistakes, please let me know.)

Maquinacriadora (talk) 10:02, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

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