{"73324":{"#nid":"73324","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Pearce on Video Games","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What games allow us to do is try things, to rehearse things,\u0022 said Celia Pearce, Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Pearce continued, \u0022They allow us to engage with dynamic systems in an interactive way, to experiment, to fail.\u0022 She goes on to explain that gamers aren\u0027t afraid to experiment and possibly fail -- they try and fail over and over again until they succeed. The story noted that researchers at the University of Washington leveraged gamers via the internet to map the structure of a key enzyme in the fight against HIV\/AIDS, a challenge with which they had been struggling for a decade.\u0026nbsp; Gamers\u0026nbsp;cracked the code in three weeks.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energynow.com\/video\/2011\/12\/05\/energy-themed-video-games#\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBloomberg TV (Energy Now)\u003C\/a\u003E, December 5, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-12-06 10:55:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:16","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.energynow.com\/video\/2011\/12\/05\/energy-themed-video-games","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11237","name":"Bloomberg"},{"id":"3627","name":"Celia Pearce"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}