58947news12718080001475896015<![CDATA[Bogost in Games.com, CNET]]>
On Games.com: "Georgia Tech professor and game researcher [LCC Professor] Ian Bogost tries to put his finger on why so many people seem so worried about Zynga and what their success represents for the game industry. "I have a liberal sense of what a game is. I do think, though, that the kind of experiences that [Zynga] are creating are more like [Skinner] boxes, like behaviorist experiments with rats. They're relying on creating these compulsions so people will want to come back and click on the bar. And so, in that respect, I fear those kinds of products." Bogost weighed in on the debate about social gaming and Zynga; detailed coverage of the issue is on CNET.]]>
2010-04-21T00:00:00-04:00Rebecca Keane Ivan Allen College Contact Rebecca Keane 404-894-1720]]>1281129134http://blog.games.com/2010/04/13/quote-of-the-moment-thinking-inside-the-skinner-box/http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20002221-52.html1281315992999309931