Newsgames: Journalism at Play

by Ian Bogost, Bobby Schweizer, Simon Ferrari

Book Overview

How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.

Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014874
• ISBN13: 9780262014878
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher