{"58918":{"#nid":"58918","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost in Forbes.com","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EForbes.com spoke with Ian Bogost for their article \u003Cem\u003E\u0022Games That Can Change The World\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E:  \u0022A movement over the past decade toward \u0022serious games,\u0022 or games with a higher purpose beyond entertainment, has game developers, companies and now even the White House saying \u0022Yes, they can.\u0022... Not everyone was impressed by the White House\u0027s announcement, however.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis contest reads as PR more than politics,\u0022 Dr. Ian Bogost, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founder of Persuasive Games, wrote on his blog. Such contests, he argued, \u0022promise a magic dreamworld in which cute carrots somehow eradicate a century of politics and economics\u0022 \u0022 In general, Bogost believes the real potential of serious games is not necessarily in their ability to change behaviors, but in their power to encourage players to consider the pros and cons of their actions. He cautions against over-hyping the power of games to change the world and thinks the genre still has a long way to go.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Forbes.com spoke with Ian Bogost for their article \u0022Games That Can Change The World\u0022:  A movement over the past decade toward \u0022serious games,\u0022 or games with a higher purpose beyond entertainment, has game developers, companies and now even the White House saying \u0022Yes, they can.\u0022... Not everyone was impressed by the White House\u0027s announcement, however.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On \u0022Games that Can Change the World\u0022"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-05-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:59","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/05\/04\/farmville-minimonos-mangahigh-technology-videogames.html?partner=technology_newsletter","title":"Read full article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}