Ecriture journalistique. Newsgames. Primaires à gauche. Ten examples of games used to tell news stories. One of the sessions at news:rewired – media in motion will look at how newsgames and gaming mechanics are being used in journalism. Shannon Perkins, editor of interactive technologies at Wired.com and who created Cutthroat Capitalism, a game where the player puts themselves in the position of a Somali pirate, will be coming over from the US to speak at news:rewired. In a Journalism.co.uk podcast he said a reader should “develop a deeper sense of the underlying themes of a story” by playing a game. Another speaker presenting in the newsgames session at news:rewired is Bobby Schweizer, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Newsgames: Journalism at Play.
He will also be joining us from the US. Here is a list of 10 newsgames to give an idea of how games can be used in storytelling. Presidential Pong. INA Global, le jeu vidéo à la recherche du journalisme.