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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 3, 2011
Rebecca Keane 404-894-1720
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Newsgames: Journalism at Play, by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer, is discussed in a Columbia Journalism Review article.
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The Authors of NewsgamesNewsgames: Journalism at Play, by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer, is discussed in a Columbia Journalism Review article. Bogost, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, addresses news as games where players can grasp concepts ignored in traditional media. “There is nothing medium-specific about journalism,” writes Bogost, “no reason that its output must take the familiar form of text, image or video". Source: Columbia Journalism Review - December 22, 2010
