62908news12904385771475896070<![CDATA[Bogost Says Videos Games May Be The Future Of Journalism]]>
In an article for "New Scientist" by School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Digital Media Professor Ian Bogost wrote that "Video games can be more than just entertainment - they may be the future of journalism. PICTURE a bunch of journalists. What do they look like? What stories do they tell? The beat reporter records events from afar, bringing the world to your recliner. The sleuth uncovers injustice, revealing the corruption of the crooked and the greedy. The television personality summarises off-the-cuff remarks about local issues from people on the street. All of these stories focus on people, places and events. They take complicated issues and package them in manageable chunks with identifiable characters. They cover what every student learns about journalism: who, what, where, when, why and how... At the Georgia Institute of Technology's Digital Media Program, we are researching newsgames, the application of games to journalism. Newsgames reinvent journalistic principles through their design, using current events, infographics, puzzles, community action and more."
This article appeared in the New Scientist - November 18, 2010