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AWARDS/RECOGNITION

The Games For Change GaCha Award for the Best Awareness-Raising Game, 2007
Adobe Youth Voices Project of Change, 2008
"Best Social Awareness Game of 2007," Salon.com
"Most Depressing Flash-Based Game," P.C. Magazine (tongue-in-cheek)
A Finalist in Changemakers' Why Games Matter competition, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

NEWS COVERAGE

"Video Games to Save the World?" ABC News
NY1 News Piece
"Video Game Designers Tackle Real World Problems," Voice of America
"Next Generation Education," Alaska Airways Magazine
"Game Plan: Video games and virtual communities offer new ways for nonprofit groups to educate people about social needs," The Chronicle of Philanthropy
"Web Hot Spots," Marie Claire
"Activist Games," Newsweek
"Walking a virtual mile in someone's shoes," The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Do-Gooder Games," Time Magazine
"Getting Activist Video Games to Market," BusinessWeek
EVC Documentary Workshop
Living Gameworlds 2007, Tiltfactor
"Contrasting Two Examples of Socially Aware Gaming," Jay is Games
"Video Games Getting Deeper," Toronto Star

REPORTS/WRITING

"Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century," Henry Jenkins
"Why Johnny Can't Fly: Treating Games as a Form of Youth Media Within a Youth Development Framework," Chapter in The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Gaming the Future: How a Brooklyn after-school program is going worldwide by mixing kids' natural attraction to computer games with an opportunity to raise their awareness of global issues. Threshold Magazine
Results of independent evaluation of Ayiti's first 15,000 game plays and of Playing 4 Keeps by the Center for Children and Technology
"Afterschool for the Global Age," Asia Society
"Video Games: Do They Have Educational Value?" Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher

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