***Game Design Workshop: Data Digging and Corporate Watching***



Kings College London

The Strand Building

4th May 2016

9:30am-4:00pm



This event is organised by The Civic Media Hub at Bournemouth University and co-hosted by King's College London.



To register for a free place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-design-workshop-data-digging-and-corporate-watching-tickets-23915011443



‘Researching up’ or investigating government and corporate practices is often riddled with obstacles. In place of interview answers, come streams of PR sound bytes and ‘no comment’ replies. With lawyers at ready disposal and PR teams performing 24/7 image-makeovers, the practices of corporate and government elites often take place behind layers of concealer.

So how do we strip off these PR masks, hear behind the sound bytes, and insist that information affecting the public, gets made public?



This interactive game design workshop brings together designers, artists, programmers, digital culture researchers, corporate watchers, campaigners and investigative journalists to to co-create an online education game that will help train people how to do investigative research into corporations and governments.



Using Corporate Watch’s Investigating Companies A Do-It-Yourself Handbook as a foundation, together we will construct game modules that share skills for tracking corporate ownership, following finances, accessing government data, making Freedom of Information Requests, and talking to companies and workers.



As a workshop participant, you will attend a short Masterclass in Educational and Serious Game Design led by Bournemouth University-based Phil Wilkinson from the Centre for Digital Entertainment. You will then play a variety of games, providing feedback and insight on your user-experience. Following a second, short Masterclass on Investigating Corporate Ownership with Corporate Watch, you will work in groups to collaboratively design paper-based, mock-ups for our Investigator’s Toolkit game.



As this is a participatory workshop that requires a full day commitment and an enthusiasm for collaborative work, you will be asked to provide a short paragraph on your interests in attending the event.



Please note that 15 slots are reserved for postgraduate students at our host institutions: Kings College London and Bournemouth University. These tickets are also available to postgraduate members of the MeCCSA Social Movement Network or the Political Studies Association. If you are a PG student belonging to any of these categories, please apply for a PG Student ticket.

You will be asked to bring a laptop to this workshop.

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This event is supported by the Political Studies Association and the MeCCSA-Social Movements Network, as well as Bournemouth University's Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community, the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, and the Politics and Media Research Group . ​

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