Newsgames

Author: Ian Bogost
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004HD49P8

Newsgames: Journalism at Play

Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. Get Newsgames computer books for free.
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 th Check Newsgames our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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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 ut 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 th

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