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Mallika Dutt & LOST’s Harold Perrineau on RH Reality Check Podcast
June 5th, 2011On 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 Quoted in Washington Post on Gaming and Filtered Internet
May 27th, 2011In 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.
Mallika Dutt on Social Games Today Podcast
May 27th, 2011Mallika Dutt was interviewed by Josh Sprague for a Social Games Today podcast on May 27, 2011. Mallika shares about Breakthrough’s beginning, growth, and entrance into the world of gaming with America 2049. She discusses the the development of a social game for social good. Listen to it here!
Washington Post Article on State Department Event Quotes Mallika
May 25th, 2011Hayley Tsukayama, in her article on the upcoming Tech@State Serious Games Conference, highlights America 2049 as a unique interplay of technology and teaching. Mallika is quoted in the article, expressing her excitement that, “the State Department is interested in gaming in a development agenda. This is actually a way to think about foreign policy, economic policy and could be huge potential for multiple organizations to think about how to reach people — and specifically how to reach the next generation.” Mallika will be speaking at the Serious Games Conference on May 27, 2011. To read the rest of the Washington Post article about the conference, America 2049, click here.
Mallika Quoted in Article on America 2049 in The Atlantic
May 20th, 2011This Atlantic article describes the exciting Facebook game America 2049. The Atlantic highlights the multifaceted gaming experience available with America 2049‘s offline educational events. Mallika explains in the article that there has been “an enormous increase in the number of people coming to our offline events as well as more interest in the themes pulled out through the game. ” Read the full article here.
