{"69124":{"#nid":"69124","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on the Public Debate over Video Games","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The debate about newsgames\u0027 value as speech turns out not to be a conflict between support and detraction but rather a conflict between the games themselves and the games as cogs in someone\u0027s favorite discourse machine,\u0022 writes Ian Bogost, Professor in the School of Literature, Communications, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, addressing recent debate in popular culture over the artistic and journalistic merit of newsgames (video games made to explore news events in a journalistic fashion) as well as video games in general. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBogost suggests a solution to this dissonance: \u0022It\u0027s not that games need to \u0027rise to the level\u0027 of books and films and the like, but that they need to spread like those media into all the nooks and crannies of human activity. The more deliberately creators populate such an ecosystem, the harder it will become for games to become pawns in the debates of others.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: Kotaku, August 1, 2011.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5826559\/why-debates-about-video-games-arent-about-video-games\u0022\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27192","created_gmt":"2011-08-02 10:25:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:03","author":"Benjamin Chapman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"FYSA","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5826559\/why-debates-about-video-games-arent-about-video-games","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"10590","name":"Newsgames"}],"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":""}}}