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Brenda Laurel  

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  • 1950– Interactive Media Pioneer, Entrepreneur, Social Theorist Brenda Laurel is a software designer, researcher, and writer who has been described as everything from a “visionary” to a “humanist,” but whose primary interest throughout her career has been human-computer interaction. In 1993, Wired magazine writer Susan McCarthy called Laurel “a woman whose thoughts are shaping the way people think about the design of cyberspace.” Laurel's work has long focused on interactive narrative, and on the cultural ramifications of technology. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Laurel, Brenda]

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