{"id":33,"date":"2003-08-29T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=33"},"modified":"2003-08-29T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T10:18:59","slug":"didactic-games-dont-share-your-personal-information-when-you-go-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/08\/29\/didactic-games-dont-share-your-personal-information-when-you-go-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Didactic games: Don&#8217;t share your personal information when you go to college!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From various sources, a game called <a href= \"http:\/\/www.privacyactivism.org\/carabella\/\" >Carabella Goes To College<\/a>: You play the role of Carabella who begins at college &#8211; you then have to make decisions about what personal information you want to share with various companies and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a game for the slightly paranoid and most of the decisions are pretty clear: The game is hosted on a site called privacyactivism.org. Do they think that you should be giving your email address away?<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/ludology.org\">Gonzalo Frasca<\/a>&#8216;s call for political games: I always <em>fear<\/em> this kind of thing &#8211; some set-in-stone ideology that the game wants to hammer into your head. I just don&#8217;t believe that the plainly didactic is ever that interesting &#8211; art needs to have some sort of doubt or open-endedness to be worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From various sources, a game called Carabella Goes To College: You play the role of Carabella who begins at college &#8211; you then have to make decisions about what personal information you want to share with various companies and institutions. It&#8217;s a game for the slightly paranoid and most of the decisions are pretty clear: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/08\/29\/didactic-games-dont-share-your-personal-information-when-you-go-to-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Didactic games: Don&#8217;t share your personal information when you go to college!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}