{"160321":{"#nid":"160321","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Political Gaming","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/bogost\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, was solicited by the Howard Dean campaign in 2003 to create the first game for a political candidate.\u0026nbsp;\u0022The thing we learned the most from the game, which was really about grassroots outreach, was that people really want to talk most about policy, not just about canvassing, meet-ups, and so forth. The lesson I think from that game was less about engagement and more about listening to voters and seeing what they really wanted to hear,\u0022 Bogost reflected. \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/take-two\/2012\/10\/03\/28690\/youth-vote-video-games-election-mtv-persuasive\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENPR (KPCC, Los Angeles)\u003C\/a\u003E, October 3, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-10-08 09:52:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:00","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"belonging","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/take-two\/2012\/10\/03\/28690\/youth-vote-video-games-election-mtv-persuasive\/","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}