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33: How Games Contribute to Civic Life with Benjamin Stokes
GameDev Loadout | A Game Developer Podcast
English - August 16, 2017 08:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Hobbies game gameart gameartist gamecomposer gamedesign gamedesigner gamedev gamedeveloper gamedevelopment gamemusic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Benjamin is a civic media scholar and game designer at American University. Previously, he co-founded Games for Change, the movement hub for advancing social change with games. He was also the program officer at MacArthur Foundation which launched a learning initiative to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people act. Games have become a great way to socialize. It can be used to meet new people, break the ice, and in the case with Pokemon Go, go out and find Pokemon together as a community. Benjamin explains how games can be great for civic life.
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