Week 5
CLASS TOPICS & ACTIVITIES
- Discussion on Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials due today (Please note that in addition to a discussion on today's materials, Alexis will lead us through a summarized discussion of last week's materials)
- Presentation and critique of Collaborative Activist Game
- Discuss Documentary Game assignment
- Screening of Playing Columbine (by Danny Ledonne, 2008; if time allows)
- Newsgames: Journalism at Play, Chapter on "Documentary," by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer
- Recommended/Optional: Playing Columbine (2008), by Danny Ledonne (Please note that I am not linking to the actual film, which is not free. Unfortunately, McHenry Library does not have it. I will make every attempt to make the file somehow available to you, but I also encourage you to be resourceful ;)
- The Cat and the Coupe (2011), by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad
- JFK Reloaded (2004), by Traffic Games
- Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005), by Danny Ledonne
- MIT Open Documentary Lab's Documentary Games playlist
- Weekly journal
- Collaborative Activist Game. Please note that you need to present the work in class as well as submit the work to the Professor. It is up to you how precisely you choose to do this, but one firm requirement is that you include it in Scalar and that you do so in a thorough and polished way.
- Recommended/Optional: Consider submitting your activist game to the Center for Creative Activism's database Actipedia: an open-access, community-generated wiki to document, share, and inspire Creative Activism.
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