You chose wrong: gamification of journalism and news games
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1. The document discusses how games and gamification can be used as tools for journalism to engage audiences and teach complex topics. It provides examples of news games that have educated people about political issues and current events. 2. Game design principles like feedback loops and understanding the game's systems and goals are important for creating effective news games. Games can help turn stories into interactive systems to portray experiences and simulate real-world dynamics. 3. The document suggests news games should be fun and social to motivate learning and participation from audiences. Templates and flexible designs can make games easier to produce. Not all news games need scores or winners to achieve journalistic goals.
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You chose wrong: gamification of journalism and news games
- 1. #GAevent April 2015 You chose wrong. Why journalists are no fun at games
- 3. 1. The second hand of a clock 2. Western Union 3. Unicorns and racehorses
- 4. First, what are we actually talking about?
- 5. First, what are we actually talking about? What’s the game: the story, or the journalism?
- 6. “Every time you do something that helps inform the user community, or increases the quality of content on citizenside.com, you get recognized and rewarded for that.” http://trippenbach.com/2011/04/19/three-reasons-game-design-is-essential-for-citizen-journalism/
- 7. “Games [need] how and why. 'How' lets you understand the system. 'Why' can be how the player understands the ways that the pieces in the system interact.” http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/04/designing-a-newsgame-is-an-act-of-journalism103.html
- 8. Editorialize Raise awareness Simulate dynamics Model issues Recreate events Teach Portray experiences Turn stories into systems Bobby Schweizer: 8 uses of news games https://www.newsrewired.com/2012/02/03/newsrw-what-are-newsgames-and-how-do-you-use-them/
- 9. 1. The second hand of a clock 2. Western Union 3. Unicorns and racehorses
- 10. “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” Ben Hecht: Image: idreamlikecrazy
- 15. “People who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.” Frank Zappa: Image: Heinrich Klaffs
- 16. 1. The second hand of a clock 2. Western Union 3. Unicorns and racehorses
- 26. 1. The second hand of a clock 2. Western Union 3. Unicorns and racehorses
- 30. FUN!
- 32. FUN!
- 34. FUN!
- 39. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 40. Racehorse
- 41. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 42. Racehorse
- 43. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 44. Racehorse
- 45. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 46. Racehorse
- 47. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 48. Unicorn SOCIAL!
- 49. SOCIAL!
- 50. SOCIAL! FUN!
- 51. SOCIAL! FUN!
- 53. Flexible CMS
- 54. Flexible CMS
- 55. A career path
- 56. Javascript for a quiz
- 61. More inputs.
- 63. 1. Templates to make games easier 2. We don’t always need to keep score. 3. Make it fun. Make it social.
- 64. Thank you. Image by Evan Long @PaulBradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, HelpMeInvestigate Birmingham City University #GAevent