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The NYTimes on the landscape of 'games for change'

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The New York Times' Clive Thompson writes an Arts & Leisure front page article today (Sunday, July 23rd) on the current field of 'games for change'. It is a broad study of the main objectives and arguments from within the field via the brief analysis of some examples currently out there. Our Darfur game project is discussed, as are: Peacemaker, A Force More Powerful, September 12th & Madrid, Food Force, Persuasive Games, USC's Annenberg School's game initiatives, gameLab's partnership with the Univeristy of Wisconsin (and their corresponding MacArthur grant), Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, and MIT's Professor Henry Jenkins.

Posted by on July 23, 2006 4:48 PM |

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and, our own lab's upcoming game on Re-Districting:
'Douglas Thomas, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communications, is developing a redistricting game in which players try to gerrymander different states. “The election system is rigged to keep incumbents in, but nobody understands it,” he said. His game is intended “to show them how easy it is to game the system. You’ll be able to give it to a first-grade class and let them fix Texas. Then you can say, hey, a 6-year-old can do a more fair job.”

Posted by: pweil [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 23, 2006 10:23 PM

That was a great piece — nice coverage. Congratulations Susana!

Posted by: jbleecker [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 24, 2006 4:17 PM

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