Games promise a new way of thinking and a new approach to think that linear media — whether books or plays or movies — do not. Furthermore, games also give participants agency and choice in a way that those linear media do not. Taken together, these two features makes games (and their cousin, simulations) incredible power to move change in a world that is increasingly complex, one that demands understandings of shades of gray and not just a single point of view.
The fourth annual Games For Change Conference explores how games can be a force for social, political, and economic change. Register for the conference.
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Media in Transition 5: Part III of IV–More Links…
More links from blogs covering the Media in Transition 5 conference are inside, with a variety of single perspectives on the conference as a whole or particular panels. As mentioned in the first post, MiT5 was a conference from our……