{"58947":{"#nid":"58947","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost in Games.com, CNET","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Games.com: \u0022Georgia Tech professor and game researcher [LCC Professor] Ian Bogost tries to put his finger on why so many people seem so worried about Zynga and what their success represents for the game industry. \u0022I have a liberal sense of what a game is. I do think, though, that the kind of experiences that [Zynga] are creating are more like [Skinner] boxes, like behaviorist experiments with rats. They\u0027re relying on creating these compulsions so people will want to come back and click on the bar. And so, in that respect, I fear those kinds of products.\u0022  Bogost weighed in on the debate about social gaming and Zynga; detailed coverage of the issue is on CNET.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"On Games.com: \u0022Georgia Tech professor and game researcher [LCC Professor] Ian Bogost tries to put his finger on why so many people seem so worried about Zynga and what their success represents for the game industry. \u0022I have a liberal sense of what a game is. I do think, though, that the kind of experiences that [Zynga] are creating are more like [Skinner] boxes, like behaviorist experiments with rats. They\u0027re relying on creating these compulsions so people will want to come back and click on the bar. And so, in that respect, I fear those kinds of products.\u0022  Read more from Bogost about the Zynga debate in the CNET article.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bogost in Games.com, CNET"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-04-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:55","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.games.com\/2010\/04\/13\/quote-of-the-moment-thinking-inside-the-skinner-box\/","title":"Quote of the Moment: Thinking inside the [Skinner] Box"},{"url":"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-20002221-52.html","title":"Why Zynga ticks off the games industry"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"9929","name":"CNET"},{"id":"9930","name":"Games.com"},{"id":"9931","name":"Zynga"}],"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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\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":""}}}