Is journalism based on computer games?

The growth of internet and the World Wide Web is offering journalism great interactive challenges. Although news stories are still based on the traditional pyramid method, the links that the Net offers is changing all that.
According to Hart (managing editor at the Portland Oregonian), a story is a sequence of action in which a sympathetic character encounters a complicating situation that he confronts and solves. Computer games offer that, often featuring conflict-based scenarios which are good for commercial news. Such interactivity allows surfers to be part of the scene as news happens. Journalists are able to give news in 3D format (that is audio, video and text) as well as providing background information. And, the kind of journalists being trained today are capable of operating sophisticated equipment right on the field, but are also street-wise in getting the story the
old-fashioned way. Although games are about play, goals, obstacles, resources, rewards, and penalties, journalists are able to use them to engage news surfers in a more pro-active relationship with the narrative.
Joe Grimm (Detroit Free Press staff writer) writes that games appear to offer the news media a popular and commercially successful model for delivering news online in a more immersive format.

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http://www.freep.com/jobspage/academy/hart99.htm
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/Nolan.pdf
http://www.jesperjuul.dk/text/WCGCACD.html