{"163971":{"#nid":"163971","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Gamification of the News","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, \u0022sees potential for a genuinely valuable contribution to society in games, a potential which has yet to be fully realised, but as new social challenges emerge and traditional institutions falter in their struggle to keep pace with technological progress, the seeming inevitability of just about everyone eventually wanting to at least tentatively explore the practicality of game-inspired solutions is only likely to intensify the paradox of this arch gamification-sceptic\u2019s contribution to a much more gamification-receptive world.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iijiij.com\/2012\/10\/20\/rescuing-serious-journalism-by-productively-reducing-it-to-mindless-fun-014907\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInnovation Investment Journal\u003C\/a\u003E, October 20, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-10-22 09:53:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:04","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Sigma Xi Research Awards","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.iijiij.com\/2012\/10\/20\/rescuing-serious-journalism-by-productively-reducing-it-to-mindless-fun-014907","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","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":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"10590","name":"Newsgames"}],"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":""}}}