{"161691":{"#nid":"161691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost Speaks at World Knowledge Forum in Seoul","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow will the global economic crisis be resolved? \u0026nbsp;How are emerging\u0026nbsp;perspectives challenging established modes of global economic governance? \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;highlighted evolutions in creativity, computer games, and social innovation during the 2012 World Knowledge (Economics) Forum which took place October 9-11. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso known as Asia\u2019s Davis Forum and the largest forum in Asia bringing together international business, scholars, and political and opinion leaders, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wkforum.org\/\u0022\u003E2012 WKF\u003C\/a\u003E focused on \u201cThe Great Breakthrough: New Solutions for Global Crisis - Leadership, Integrity, Creativity, and Happiness.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor of digital media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Bogost\u2019s presentation \u201cHow to things with videogames\u201d made the case that debates about the role of games in popular culture obscure the medium\u0027s ability to create complex simulated realities for purposes beyond entertainment.\u0026nbsp; Bogost was also a panelist in two sessions on creativity. Game=More Than Virtual Reality focused on the history and future of games and avenues for cultivating their enormous potential as a media and as an industry.\u0026nbsp; Other participants were \u003Ca\u003EJames Gwertzman\u003C\/a\u003E of PopCap Games, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca\u003EJesper Juul of\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;New York University, with Charles Spence of Oxford University as moderator. In a second panel, Bogost, along with Juul, \u003Ca\u003EEmily Cho\u003C\/a\u003E of Korean Air, \u003Ca\u003EYakov Bart\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of INSEAD, \u003Ca\u003EIgnacio Garcia Alves\u003C\/a\u003E of Arthur D. Little, and moderator Eric Kim from Maverick Capital, explored how social innovation, personal manufacturing and hyperconnectness are changing not only the way we live, but how we do business and are enabling a 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E industrial revolution.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow will the global economic crisis be resolved? \u0026nbsp;How are emerging\u0026nbsp;perspectives challenging established modes of global economic governance?\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ian Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;highlighted evolutions in creativity, computer games, and social innovation during the 2012 World Knowledge (Economics) Forum which took place October 9-11. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-10-12 16:50:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:58","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3836","name":"asia"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"1751","name":"world economic forum"},{"id":"46221","name":"World Knowledge Forum"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane \u0026nbsp;404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}