Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 27, 2006
LIve blogging from the Serious Games Conference - usual disclaimers apply to typos, etc. We decided to ask Europeans who were playing the game whether or not they knew they were playing with Americans. This is a great place to do public diplomacy in the gaming world. Darfur Is Dying was the result. Will clean up later.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 9, 2006
The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. It is part of emerging trend: harnessing the power of the gaming medium for more "serious purposes," that many nonprofits address. The list of social issues that are being addressed by games goes on. What existing and emerging game technologies (such as.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 9, 2007
It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2006
This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 17, 2007
According to their site: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games in 2001, disregarding international criticism of China's human rights record. Both the IOC and the Chinese have argued that the Games will "improve human rights in China" and therefore Tibet. Claire of Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 1, 2006
is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2009
Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I starts around 6:50).
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