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Ian 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 "Editor & Publisher". Bogost says, "It's only
natural that video games become an integral part of how people
understand current events and how reporters deliver the news." Bogost and
Michael Mateas, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are funded by a grant to create a
system for local news organizations to implement current event
games into their reporting duties, adding them to their stories like
they would a chart, video, or interactive map. "What a game
does that a news story can't is simulate how something works," said
Bogost, who wrote Newsgames: Journalism at Play, which explores how
video games enhance news. "A player can interact with it and ...get a
network of causes and effects, which can help dig under the surface of
the issues we face today."
This article appeared in Editor & Publisher - December 17, 2010
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