'''''Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies''''' is a [[digital media]] [[textbook]] authored by [[Noah Wardrip-Fruin]] and published through Thethe [[MIT Press]]. Throughout the book Wardrip-Fruin takes a look into "expressive processing" elements that part take in digital media.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/expressive-processing | title= Expressive Processing |work= The MIT Press |last=Wardrip-Fruin |first=Noah|accessdate=2010-10-26}}</ref> Wardrip-Fruin attempts to explain expressive processing through the [[ELIZA effect]], The Tale-Spin Effect, The SimCity Effect, and many other elements of interactive digital media.