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CBS News Covers Games for Change, Highlights Mallika Dutt as a Presenter

CBS News highlights the “explosion” of Facebook games, with a nod to Mallika, Breakthrough and America 2049! Read the article here.  

Tablet Magazine Talks to Mallika About Developing America 2049 and Gaming for Good

Tablet Magazine lauds America 2049 as a solid, worthwhile and interesting game among the “din of popular culture,” and highlights the development collaboration with Hasia Diner, professor of history and the director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, whose historical research helped complete the fabric of the game. Mallika is quoted as saying gaming can be a way to “engage a community of people across issues and across identities.” Read the full article here.

Mallika Dutt & LOST’s Harold Perrineau on RH Reality Check Podcast

On June 5th, Reproductive Health Reality Check, a website committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, interviewed Mallika and Harold Perrineau, known for his role as Michael on the television show Lost. Mallika talks about America 2049, Breakthrough’s Facebook game, as a means to bring more attention to human rights issues. Harold Perrineau describes his interest in sexuality and immigration issues as a catalyst for his involvement in America 2049. Read more and listen to the podcast here.

Mallika in Top 50 Most Influential People of Verve Power Issue

Mallika is featured and interviewed in the June 2011 Verve India magazine. This issue, the Power Issue, champions India’s 50 most influential women. Mallika is among many amazing women in the top 50, including Kareena Kapoor and Sonia Gandhi.

Read it here!

Mallika Quoted in Washington Post on Gaming and Filtered Internet

In a Washington Post article about the possibility of using online games as a way to expand a sometimes limited online experience, Mallika advocates games as a way for “people to enter into alternative realities, to change their way of thinking.” The article describes the increasingly limited and less democratic internet experience caused by filters which personalize content for better advertising, but can result in excluding exposure to different ideas. Read more here.