Food Import Folly

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on May 24, 2007 11:14 PM | | Comments (2) ~
Take the role of the FDA inspectors in a world of increasingly numerous food imports and increasingly unmanagable risk. Your charge: try to protect the country from contaminants in foreign food imports using extremely limited resources.

The first in Persuasive Games newsgame publication relationship with The New York Times, in which our editorial games are published alongside all the other op-ed content on TimesSelect. --Food Import Folly (Persuasive Games)
I'd wondered when the rhetorical potential of a current-events game would be recognized as a vehicle for critical commentary, rather than the occasional subject of a column or other traditional form.

When I go to the link on the NYT website, I get a header and footer, but no content.


Categories: Current_Events , Cyberculture , Games , Journalism , Media , Rhetoric , Social_Software

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Joshua Sasmor said:

"I get a header and footer, but no content." Par for the course from the NYT?

May 24, 2007 11:46 PM

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