{"112951":{"#nid":"112951","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Gamification at Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As someone who has spent the last 10 years trying to move the use of games forward as a medium beyond entertainment...I lament the idea that this very simplistic and insubstantial version of games has enjoyed such success,\u0022 said \u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media. Bogost is referring to gamification techniques being used by companies to motivate workers without providing real incentives. Bogost continues, \u0022There seems to a trend that where incentives were once real material incentives, now we have false incentives.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-17160118\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBBC\u003C\/a\u003E - February 28, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-02-28 12:17:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:26","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Power Research Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-17160118","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"17411","name":"BBC"},{"id":"12700","name":"gamification"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"1800","name":"work"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}