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This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of
newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and
interactives augmenting digital journalism into full-fledged
immersive video games from open-world designs to virtual reality
experiences. Critics have raised questions about the credibility
and ethics of transforming serious news stories of political
consequence into entertainment media, and the risks of trivializing
grave and catastrophic events into mere games. Dowling explores
both the negatives of newsgames, and how the use of entertainment
media forms and their narrative methods mainly associated with
fiction can add new and potentially more powerful meaning to news
than traditional formats allow. The book also explores how
industrial and cultural shifts in the digital publishing industry
have enabled newsgames to evolve in a manner that strengthens
certain core principles of journalism, particularly advocacy on
behalf of marginalized and oppressed groups. Cutting-edge and
thoughtful, The Gamification of Digital Journalism is a must-read
for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in
multimedia journalism and immersive storytelling.
This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of
newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and
interactives augmenting digital journalism into full-fledged
immersive video games from open-world designs to virtual reality
experiences. Critics have raised questions about the credibility
and ethics of transforming serious news stories of political
consequence into entertainment media, and the risks of trivializing
grave and catastrophic events into mere games. Dowling explores
both the negatives of newsgames, and how the use of entertainment
media forms and their narrative methods mainly associated with
fiction can add new and potentially more powerful meaning to news
than traditional formats allow. The book also explores how
industrial and cultural shifts in the digital publishing industry
have enabled newsgames to evolve in a manner that strengthens
certain core principles of journalism, particularly advocacy on
behalf of marginalized and oppressed groups. Cutting-edge and
thoughtful, The Gamification of Digital Journalism is a must-read
for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in
multimedia journalism and immersive storytelling.
A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa
Writers' Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the
world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers'
Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished
writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and
faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six U.S. poet
laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume
follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s
under director Paul Engle, who promoted the "workshop" method of
classroom peer criticism. Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial
and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational
style created an environment of both competition and community,
cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional
authors who have participated in the program-such as Flannery
O'Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra
Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson-David Dowling
examines how the Iowa Writers' Workshop has shaped professional
authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American
literature.
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet,
lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly
called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an
idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role
of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his
time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and
profoundly shaped the careers of his young acolytes-including Henry
David Thoreau, renowned journalist and women's rights advocate
Margaret Fuller, and lesser-known literary figures such as Samuel
Ward and reckless romantic poets Jones Very, Ellery Channing, and
Charles Newcomb. Author David Dowling's history of the professional
and personal relationships between Emerson and his proteges-a
remarkable collaboration that alternately proved fruitful and
destructive, tension-filled and liberating-is a fascinating true
story of altruism, ego, influence, pettiness, genius, and the bold
attempt to reshape the literary market of the mid-nineteenth
century.
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