{"id":119,"date":"2007-05-01T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/05\/01\/games-for-change-fiesta-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T15:24:15","slug":"games-for-change-fiesta-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/05\/01\/games-for-change-fiesta-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Games for Change Fiesta 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Games promise a new way of thinking and a new approach to think that linear media &#8212; whether books or plays or movies &#8212; do not. Furthermore, games also give participants agency and choice in a way that those linear media do not. Taken together, these two features makes games (and their cousin, simulations) incredible power to move change in a world that is increasingly complex, one that demands understandings of shades of gray and not just a single point of view.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesforchange.org\/conference\/2007\/index.php\">Games For Change Conference<\/a> explores how games can be a force for social, political, and economic change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acteva.com\/booking.cfm?bevaID=131410\">Register for the conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games promise a new way of thinking and a new approach to think that linear media &#8212; whether books or plays or movies &#8212; do not. Furthermore, games also give participants agency and choice in a way that those linear media do not. Taken together, these two features makes games (and their cousin, simulations) incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-for-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}