{"78641":{"#nid":"78641","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Political Games","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s a continuity within the crassness of elections that gamification plugs into very well,\u0022 says \u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in an article about the influence of online gaming on U.S. political elections. Bogost continues, \u0022There\u0027s a cynicism and instrumentalism to the process that\u0027s meant to produce results for its participants, rather than for the citizens.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16535626\u0022\u003EBBC News Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E - January 16, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-01-17 11:56:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:20","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-16535626","dateline":{"date":"2012-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11804","name":"and Culture"},{"id":"17411","name":"BBC"},{"id":"3748","name":"communication"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"3747","name":"literature"},{"id":"4508","name":"political"}],"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":""}}}