{"128221":{"#nid":"128221","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ferrari on \u0027The Republia Times\u0027 Game and Propaganda","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s hard to classify [the game \u0027The Republia Times\u0027] as any proper type of newsgame, whether that be an editorial game or a literacy-building game,\u0022 writes \u003Cstrong\u003ESimon Ferrari\u003C\/strong\u003E, a 2010 Knight News Challenge Winner and Digital Media Ph.D. student in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Ferrari continues, \u0022But it\u0027s easy to imagine it as a successful prototype for a more thorough critique of the propaganda model of contemporary news media -- or even as the basis of a competitive multiplayer game about the risks and rewards of toeing the party line in a media ecology where there\u0027s more than one news source.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2012\/05\/what-the-republia-times-game-can-teach-us-about-propaganda121.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPBS Idea Lab\u003C\/a\u003E - May 2, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-05-03 13:54:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:37","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"diviners","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2012\/05\/what-the-republia-times-game-can-teach-us-about-propaganda121.html","dateline":{"date":"2012-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"32571","name":"\u0027The Republia Times\u0027"},{"id":"32561","name":"PBS Idea Lab"},{"id":"168893","name":"Simon Ferrari"}],"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":""}}}