Journalism Games

Books

• Grace, Lindsay D. Doing Things with Games: Social Impact Through Play. CRC Press, 2019.
• Bogost, Ian, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer. Newsgames: Journalism at play. Mit Press, 2012.

Reports

• 2020, State of Newsgames 2020: A Snapshot analysis, 2020 report
• 2016-2018 Jolt Initiative, Applying Games Design to News 2018 report
• 2015: Play the News: Fun and Games in Digital Journalism

Academic Reading:

• Sicart, Miguel. "Newsgames: Theory and Design." International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.
• Treanor, Mike, and Michael Mateas. "Newsgames-Procedural Rhetoric Meets Political Cartoons." DiGRA Conference. 2009.

• Grace, L., Treanor, M., Totten, C. and McCoy, J. 2016. A Case Study in Newsgame Creation: A Case Study in Newsgame Creation: Why Game Designers and Journalists are Still Learning to Work Together , 66th International Communication Conference, Fokouka, Japan

  Plewe, Christoph, and Elfriede Fürsich. Are newsgames better journalism? Empathy, information and representation in games on refugees and migrants." Journalism Studies 19.16 (2018): 2470-2487.

García, Salvador Gómez, and Nuria Navarro Sierra. "Videojuegos e Información Una aproximación a los newsgames españoles como nueva óptica informativa." ICONO 14, Revista de comunicación y tecnologías emergentes 11.2 (2013): 31-51.

Meier, Klaus. "Journalismus zum Spielen: Newsgames als neues digitales Genre; theoretische Verortung und explorative Nutzungsstudie." (2017): 47-61.

Events

• 2019 Newsjam 2019, A Hackathon in Miami and Washington, DC.
• 2017 Newsjam 2019, A Hackathon in Miami for news professionals, students and independent game designers.
• 2014 Newsgames Hackathon 2014, Europe’s First Newsgames Hackathon in Cologne, Germany