Newsgames - Journalism At Play

Informationen zum Autor Ian Bogost is Professor of Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010) and other books. Simon Ferrari is a doctoral student in digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Bobby Schweizer is a doctoral student in digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Klappentext Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames. Videogames are native to computers rather than a digitized form of prior media. Games simulate how things work by constructing interactive models; journalism as game involves more than just revisiting old forms of news production. Wired magazine¿s game Cutthroat Capitalism, for example, explains the economics of Somali piracy by putting the player in command of a pirate ship, offering choices for hostage negotiation strategies. Zusammenfassung How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.

Product details

• Authors: Bogost, Ian Bogost, Ian (Professor Bogost, Ian Ferrari Bogost, Ian/ Ferrari Bogost, Prof. Ian Bogost, Prof. Ian Ferrari Bogost, Simon Ferrari, Bobby Schweizer
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9780262518079
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51807-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism