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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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"It's hard to classify [the game 'The Republia Times'] as any proper type of newsgame, whether that be an editorial game or a literacy-building game," writes Simon Ferrari, a 2010 Knight News Challenge Winner and Digital Media Ph.D. student in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Ferrari continues, "But it's easy to imagine it as a successful prototype for a more thorough critique of the propaganda model of contemporary news media -- or even as the basis of a competitive multiplayer game about the risks and rewards of toeing the party line in a media ecology where there's more than one news source." Source: PBS Idea Lab - May 2, 2012
