{"63236":{"#nid":"63236","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost Discusses Making Games from Headlines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Literature, \nCommunication, discusses bringing video games to the newsroom in an article for \u0022Editor \u0026amp; Publisher\u0022. Bogost says, \u0022It\u0027s only \nnatural that video games become an integral part of how people \nunderstand current events and how reporters deliver the news.\u0022 Bogost and\n Michael Mateas, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department \nat the University of California, Santa Cruz, are funded by a grant to create a \nsystem for local news organizations to implement current event \ngames into their reporting duties, adding them to their stories like \nthey would a chart, video, or interactive map. \u0022What a game \ndoes that a news story can\u0027t is simulate how something works,\u0022 said \nBogost, who wrote \u003Cem\u003ENewsgames: Journalism at Play\u003C\/em\u003E, which explores how \nvideo games enhance news. \u0022A player can interact with it and ...get a \nnetwork of causes and effects, which can help dig under the surface of \nthe issues we face today.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis article appeared in \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEditor \u0026amp; Publisher -\u003C\/em\u003E December 17, 2010\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, discusses bringing video games to the newsroom in an article for \u0022Editor \u0026amp; Publisher\u0022.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2010-12-20 12:44:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/Headlines\/making-a-game-from-the-headlines-63544-.aspx","title":"Read full article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"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":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u0026nbsp; 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}