ONA 2008 Playing the News


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Keynote Speaker: Ian Bogost

Ian BogostDr. Ian Bogost is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner at Persuasive Games LLC. Bogost is author of several books, including "Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism," recently listed among "50 Books for Everyone in the Game Industry" by Edge Online, and "Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames." Check out Bogost's Persuasive Games.
Ian Bogost's Keynote speech:
Ian Bogost's "Playing the News" Keynote

Gail Robinson
Editor, Gotham Gazette
Garbage Game, Budget Maze,
Who's Running for What?

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Joellen Easton
Public Insight Analyst, American Public Media
Consumer Consequences, Budget Hero/ Budget Balancer, Idea Generator

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Meghan Laslocky
Interactive Producer, KQED
You Decide

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Eric Brown
CEO, ImpactGames
PlaytheNewsGame.com

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Nora Paul
Institute for New Media Studies,
University of Minnesota

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Josh Sheldon
MIT Center for Future Civic Media
TIMELAB2100

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Suzanne Seggerman
GamesforChange

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