(Week Three Lecture "What is Text?")
Today we welcomed an amazing guest lecturer, Skye Doherty, and explored the world of the written word. She emphasized that text was essentially the "backbone of journalism". Much of what she taught us was technical, useful information that will help me all throughout my journalism career. However, what most interested me about her lecture was about a new form of journalism that Ms. Doherty was exploring at the moment which I had never heard of or even imagined before: Gaming Journalism.
My first reaction was basically "what?". I understood that there was basic interaction involved but that was all I thought there could be to it, until she actually showed us one.
We played an online journalism game called Cutthroat Capitalism where a journalist had condensed his research into the economics of Somalian pirates into a game to make the content more accessible to the viewer. I was profoundly moved by this idea that journalism was now responding to so many of the needs of the audience, presenting information in ways beyond the set traditions of journalism in order to reach out to as many people as possible.
Even I who had never played a video game in my life found interest in this sort of journalism, imagine the reaction of all those gamers out there?
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