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.

Video

• Fake Newsgames (2022):
  
• Disinformation Games (2021):
  
• Newsgames Overview (2020):
  

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

Suggested Academic Reading:

• Grace, Lindsay D. "Gaming the System: Case Study in Investigative Journalism and Playful Interactive Narrative Design to Explain Systemic Bias in Immigration Policy." International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.


• Grace, L. and Liang, S. 2023. Examining Misinformation and Disinformation Games Through Inoculation Theory and Transportation Theory, The 56th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICCS), Maui, Hawaii, January 2023.


• Grace, L. and Solomon C. Lessons Learned in the Rise and Fall of Newsgames as a Genre. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA 22) conference, Poland, 2022


• Bogost, I. (2020). Curiosity journalism, or the first decades of newsgames. Convergence, 26(3), 572-576.

• 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.

  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

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


• 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.


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

Events

• 2023 Panel: Are Games Disinformation Tools", Concordia University, Québec, Canada (online)
• 2021 Department of Homeland Security Hosts 6th Digital Forum on Terrorism Prevention, with Focus on Online Gaming
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• 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

News Highlights

• 2023: These newsgames are promoting media literacy in young people, International Journalist Network
• 2023: Games are a weapon in the war on disinformation, The Economist
• 2020: A Brief Introduction to Newsgames, Can video games be used to tell the news?, Knight Lab, Northwestern University.
• 2017: Online game answers call to fight sexual harassment, Jakarta Post
• 2018: Video Games Offer Unique Way Forward for Journalists, Variety
• 2018: Playing with News, The Hindu
• 2017: Games Might be a Good Way to Fight Fake News, Nieman Lab
• 2015 Press Start, How to Write a Newsgame, The Guardian
• 2014 Newsgame hackathon: can we make a game with no coding experience? , The Guardian