Newsgames : journalism at play / / Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer
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| Autore: |
Bogost Ian
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| Titolo: |
Newsgames : journalism at play / / Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 794.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Video games |
| Online journalism | |
| Interactive multimedia | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications |
| GAME STUDIES/Games & Culture | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies | |
| Altri autori: |
FerrariSimon
SchweizerBobby
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Newsgames -- Current events -- Infographics -- Documentary -- Puzzles -- Literacy -- Community -- Platforms -- Journalism at play. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Newsgames |
| ISBN: | 0-262-28908-3 |
| 1-282-97837-3 | |
| 9786612978371 | |
| 0-262-28922-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823332103321 |
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