{"501921":{"#nid":"501921","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Ian Bogost,\u0026nbsp; Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I\u2019m commiserating with a friend who recently left the technology industry to return to entertainment. \u201cI\u2019m not a programmer,\u201d he begins, explaining some of the frustrations of his former workplace, before correcting himself, \u201c\u2014oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak. Though to me, engineers are people who build bridges and follow pretty rigid processes for a reason.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28466","created_gmt":"2016-02-17 13:29:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:58","author":"Meghana Melkote","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/11\/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers\/414271\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"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":""}}}