news:rewired | What are newsgames and how do you use them? ::podcast outlines 8 journalistic uses::

newsgames1.mp3Bobby Schweizer, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Newsgames: Journalism at Play …laid out eight different uses of newsgames. They can be used to:

1. Editorialize
2. Raise awareness about specific events and what happened
3. Simulate dynamics
4. Model issues
5. Recreate events
6. Teach
7. Portray experiences
8. Turn stories into systems