{"60835":{"#nid":"60835","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost on Newsgames","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The online news media require a new form of game, one that draws from\nthe accessibility of arcade games and the capability of videogames to\npresent an editorial opinion,\u0022\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ewrites Digital Media Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor Ian Bogost.\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ian Bogost is currently developing a \u0022tool for generating newsgames on the fly, making it viable to create a\nvideogame about a breaking event.\u0022 He describes the project as an\nextension of editorial cartooning. \u0022For over a century,\u0022 he wrote,\n\u0022editorial cartoons drew attention to issues of local importance and\ngenerated a sense of regional pride...they\u0027ve always served a pivotal\nrole in maintaining product loyalty and funneling readers toward the\nrest of the paper.\u0022\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead full posts about Bogost and his Newsgames project on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.editorsweblog.org\/multimedia\/2010\/09\/newsgames_aim_to_increase_newspapers_via.php\u0022\u003EEditors Weblog\u003C\/a\u003E and PBS\u0027 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2010\/09\/the-cartoonist-aims-to-bring-newsgames-to-the-masses243.html\u0022\u003EIdea Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2010-09-07 15:19:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:23","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.editorsweblog.org\/multimedia\/2010\/09\/newsgames_aim_to_increase_newspapers_via.php","title":"Editors Weblog"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2010\/09\/the-cartoonist-aims-to-bring-newsgames-to-the-masses243.html","title":"Idea Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"10591","name":"Idea Lab"},{"id":"950","name":"liberal arts"},{"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":[{"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":""}}}