{"69108":{"#nid":"69108","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ferrari on Channel 4\u0027s \u0022Sweatshop\u0022 Game","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Sweatshop is a game that... becomes gradually more and more complex to control over time. As its play deepens, so too does its procedural rhetoric,\u0022 writes Simon Ferrari, Digital Media PhD student in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, about Sweatshop, a new browser game developed by Littleloud for the British Government\u0027s Channel 4 Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESweatshop is a strategy game in which players fill the role of a manager of a sweatshop floor\u0026nbsp;in an anonymous developing nation. \u0026nbsp;As Ferrari writes,\u0026nbsp;\u0022Sweatshop\u0027s strategy is to pull you into the antagonist\u0027s mindset; it forces you into the cold logic of sweatshop management and leaves you to reflect on your own descent into it.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: PBS MediaShift Idea Lab, July 27, 2011.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2011\/07\/the-frightening-real-world-strength-of-channel-4s-sweatshop-game207.html\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":"2011-08-01 13:52:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:03","author":"Benjamin Chapman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"jim leonard","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2011\/07\/the-frightening-real-world-strength-of-channel-4s-sweatshop-game207.html","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10590","name":"Newsgames"},{"id":"168893","name":"Simon Ferrari"},{"id":"168914","name":"Sweatshop"}],"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":""}}}