{"634904":{"#nid":"634904","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Blindsided | On the Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, was interviewed on WNYC\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;On the Media\u0026quot; on April 11, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe episode of the popular radio program explored the implications of the spread of coronavirus, including on broadcast media. Bogost spoke to how esports broadcasts could \u0026ndash; or could not \u0026ndash; fill the gap left by live sports, which have almost all been cancelled for the time being.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMICAH LOEWINGER:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAnd even Ian Bogost thinks sports fans are ready for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIAN BOGOST:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;It\u0026#39;s like the announcers job now to persuade the viewer that everything is normal, even when everyone knows that it\u0026#39;s not. But that\u0026#39;s kind of what the sports viewer wants. In a way. It\u0026#39;s not just the game with a kind of first one is the ritual. I watch sports on the weekends or you know, I watch Monday Night Football, whatever it is, replacing that loss with something that resembles sports enough or where you\u0026#39;re play-acting as if it is quote, unquote, real sport. That may actually tick the box.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/episodes\/on-the-media-blindsided\u0022\u003EListen to or read the transcript of the program here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-04-30 16:56:14","changed_gmt":"2020-04-30 18:23:14","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Blowin\u2019 in the Wind","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/episodes\/on-the-media-blindsided","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=cy9ipBQS"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"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":""}}}