| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-223) and index. |
| Contents |
Newsgames -- Current events -- Infographics -- Documentary -- Puzzles -- Literacy -- Community -- Platforms -- Journalism at play. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Video games.
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Online journalism.
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Interactive multimedia.
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GAMES -- Video & Electronic.
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Interactive multimedia. (OCoLC)fst00975995
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Online journalism. (OCoLC)fst01200881
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Video games. (OCoLC)fst01166421
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| Added Author |
Ferrari, Simon.
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Schweizer, Bobby.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bogost, Ian. Newsgames. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262014878 (DLC) 2010011990 (OCoLC)606234291 |
| Standard No. |
9786612978371 |
| ISBN |
9780262289221 (electronic bk.) |
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0262289229 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262289085 (electronic bk.) |
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0262289083 (electronic bk.) |
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