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Newsgames: Journalism at Play

Ian Bogost - Personal Name; Ferrari, Simon - Personal Name; Schweizer, Bobby - Personal Name;

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. The book describes newsgames that can persuade, inform, and titillate; make information interactive; re-create a historical event; put news content into a puzzle; teach journalism; and build a community. 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. And Powerful Robot's game September 12th offers a model for a short, quickly produced, and widely distributed editorial newsgame. Videogames do not offer a panacea for the ills of contemporary news organizations. But if the industry embraces them as a viable method of doing journalism--not just an occasional treat for online readers--newsgames can make a valuable contribution.

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Publisher: : MIT Press Direct., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262289221
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Content Type: text
Media Type: computer
Carrier Type: online resource
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Subject(s): Video games
Interactive multimedia
Online journalism
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Statement of Responsibility: Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, Bobby Schweizer

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8854.001.0001
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