Institute for Analytic Journalism

Serious Games Initiative
http://www.seriousgames.org/

The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

Says information specialists Marylaine Block:
"As one who believes nobody should be allowed to run for office until they have played
Sim City for at least six months, I think such games have enormous
potential for helping people explore complex social problems and possible
solutions."

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Thursday, November 17

Growth opportunity (of the intellectual sort) for journalists

by Tom Johnson on Thu 17 Nov 2005 09:00 PM MST

With newspapers -- and news magazine -- cutting staff on an almost weekly basis, some of us in journalism are going to have to reinvent ourselves. One of our tenents of Analytic Journalism is simulation modeling, a methodology and analytic tool we believe will be to the social sciences in the 21st century (and journalism IS a social science) what quantum physics was to the hard sciences in the 20th. So here's an interesting opportunity for someone.

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Tuesday, November 1

Simulated Journalism? Not exactly, but a topic of relevance

by Tom Johnson on Tue 01 Nov 2005 01:19 PM MST

Simulation modeling is one of the four cornerstone areas of interest to the IAJ. It's a relatively new, and largely unknown, field that can be of great advantage to journalists if we can take the time to learn how it works and then how we can apply it to our field. The best resource to date for journalists is the J-Lab, (http://www.j-lab.org/) at the University of Maryland.

But today along comes this announcement of a rich issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. It's filled with deep thinking and application.

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