Author: Ian Bogost
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004HD49P8
Newsgames: Journalism at Play
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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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