{"68711":{"#nid":"68711","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on News Gaming","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe fundamental thing about video games that excites me is the ability to simulate complexity, to characterize systems and how they behave,\u201d said Ian Bogost, \u0026nbsp;Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBogost\u0027s ideas about newsgames (a term he coined) inform many examples of games being used as journalism, such as Wired.com\u0027s 2009 game Cutthroat Capitalism, which explores the complicated world of a Somali pirate.\u003Cem\u003E Source: The Boston Globe: July 3, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2011-07-03\/news\/29733694_1_video-games-somali-pirate-somali-coast\u0022\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27192","created_gmt":"2011-07-06 11:06:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:59","author":"Benjamin Chapman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Julie Sonneberg","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2011-07-03\/news\/29733694_1_video-games-somali-pirate-somali-coast","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}