{"61196":{"#nid":"61196","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost on videogames as journalism","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Newsgames-Journalism-Play-Ian-Bogost\/dp\/0262014874\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1284468511\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0022\u003ENewsgames: Journalism at Play\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, which will be published this October, Dr. Bogost and his fellow authors elaborate on that idea -- that videogames can and have been used to deliver news and distill complicated topics for readers,\u0022 writes TheAtlantic.com.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Games allow us to address systems instead of stories,\u0022 Dr. Bogost said in an interview. And, in some ways, they can offer more depth. People often search for simple answers to broad topics like the Gulf oil spill or the 2008 financial crisis, but in reality both were the result of a confluence of failures and events. Games can help to convey that complexity. \u0022In particular, they can offer this experience of how something works rather than a description of key events and players,\u0022 Dr. Bogost says.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The Atlantic online features Ian Bogost\u0027s new book \u0022Newsgames: Journalism at Play\u0022"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Newsgames-Journalism-Play-Ian-Bogost\/dp\/0262014874\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1284468511\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0022\u003ENewsgames: Journalism at Play\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, which will be published this October, Dr. Bogost and his fellow authors elaborate on that idea -- that videogames can and have been used to deliver news and distill complicated topics for readers,\u0022 writes TheAtlantic.com.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Commentary and excerpts from LCC Associate Professor Ian Bogost\u0027s forthcoming book."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-09-23 17:18:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:27","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46675":{"id":"46675","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449174478","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:27:58","changed":"1475894428","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:28"}},"media_ids":["46675"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"},{"id":"4144","name":"journalism"},{"id":"2451","name":"videogames"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u0026nbsp; 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}