Mark Bernstein brings the news that Peter Bøgh Andersen died this week.
Peter played an important role on my journey through academia by serving on my PhD committee in 2004. He was a semiotician in the best possible sense, where it meant that no question was out of bounds, and that all media, art forms and human endeavors were therefore necessarily interesting, as his web page attests.
Hence, he was always a great discussion partner for a young researcher looking at an underexplored phenomenon such as video games, and he was the first person I ever heard give a convincing account of interactivity, back in the mid-1990’s when interactivity was used left and right. “Look, you need to distinguish between interactivity on the level of the plot, and interactivity on the level of the story”.
Unfortunately, his site at that address is gone.