{"id":1173,"date":"2006-04-15T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2006-04-15T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T22:21:10","slug":"do-we-need-a-public-gaming-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Do we need a public gaming corporation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Rejeski in <a title=\"Serious Games Source\" href=\"http:\/\/seriousgamessource.com\/features\/feature_041106_public_gaming.html\">Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming<\/a> argues that the USA needs the gaming equivalent to PBS.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, serious games, like serious TV, are likely to remain a sidebar in the history of mass media. Non-commercial television floundered, despite millions of dollars of investment by the Ford Foundation, until the government stepped in and created a viable and long-lasting alternative. With similar vision and foresight, and a relatively small amount of funding, this could happen with video and computer games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting idea. What would the Canadian equivalent be? The &#8220;Canadian Gaming Corporation&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rejeski in Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming argues that the USA needs the gaming equivalent to PBS. However, serious games, like serious TV, are likely to remain a sidebar in the history of mass media. Non-commercial television floundered, despite millions of dollars of investment by the Ford Foundation, until the government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do we need a public gaming corporation?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}