{"636360":{"#nid":"636360","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ian Bogost: How Can the Tech Industry Change for the Better?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, appeared on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EKeen On\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EPodcast to discuss change in the tech industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Keen:\u0026nbsp;What\u0026rsquo;s really angering people now in Silicon Valley? Is it really just Zuckerberg and Facebook\u0026rsquo;s unwillingness to tell the truth about social media, or is there something deeper and more profound?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost:\u0026nbsp;Yeah, these are small. These are like papercuts. This is definitely a death by a thousand papercuts situation for many tech workers who are bothered by the way that their industry or their specific organizations are behaving. For them, I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s about one thing and it\u0026rsquo;s certainly not about the latest thing. It\u0026rsquo;s rather the failure of this promise that the tech industry had offered them, which was that they were going to change the world for the better.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lithub.com\/ian-bogost-how-can-the-tech-industry-change-for-the-better\/\u0022\u003EListen to the podcast episode.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-06-19 19:12:00","changed_gmt":"2020-06-22 20:23:24","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"female researcher","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/ian-bogost-how-can-the-tech-industry-change-for-the-better\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","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":[],"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":""}}}