{"id":174,"date":"2011-11-29T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:41:57","slug":"canadian-civic-engagement-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2011\/11\/29\/canadian-civic-engagement-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Civic Engagement Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/ww3.tvo.org\/node\/161645\">Persuasion &#8211; the Game of Civic Engagement<\/a>, which is put out by CTO, the Ontario Educational Communications Authority. In it, your avatar walks around a neighborhood and chats people up about a civic issue facing that neighborhood. It looks like the main mechanic for the game involves clicking on neighbors, which spreads information. Apparently, when enough information is spread, you have a better chance of making the civic change you want. (Interesting model of social change).<\/p>\n<p>iCivics has a similar civic engagement game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icivics.org\/games\/activate\">Activate<\/a>, which has a different model of social change, one that involves awareness-raising, fundraising, and pressuring officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned about Persuasion &#8211; the Game of Civic Engagement, which is put out by CTO, the Ontario Educational Communications Authority. In it, your avatar walks around a neighborhood and chats people up about a civic issue facing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2011\/11\/29\/canadian-civic-engagement-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113393],"tags":[3176,53637,113397,13248],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival","tag-civic-engagement","tag-icivics","tag-off-topic-2","tag-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}