{"id":49,"date":"2018-01-24T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2018-05-11T02:39:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:39:59","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #333333;\">NEWSCAN is an educational mobile-based experience that deals with the consumption and spreading of fake news, and is designed for real-time play by 100-200 participants. The experience was developed by a 6-member team from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center as a 16-week-long project, and will be presented at the Games for Change Festival in June 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #333333;\">During our presentation at the Games for Change Festival, we intend to place each member of our audience in the role of a fake news purveyor. Players will then be asked to spread disinformation to gain followers, as well as make collaborative distraction-based decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #333333;\">Overall, Carnegie Mellon and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesforchange.org\">Games for Change<\/a> hope to make an interactive experience that successfully encourages players to think before they interact with news on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-295 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ETC-Logo-Small-e1526006383441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"140\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-296 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gfc-header-logo-e1526006209101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSCAN is an educational mobile-based experience that deals with the consumption and spreading of fake news, and is designed for real-time play by 100-200 participants. The experience was developed by a 6-member team from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center as a 16-week-long project, and will be presented at the Games for Change Festival in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/newscan\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}