Ian Bogost - Water Cooler Games - CDC in Second Life

my affiliations

Ian Bogost - videogame theory, criticism, design

about me

contact

Water Cooler Games

Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.

You are reading an archived version of this article. The original URL was (loading...)

CDC in Second Life

by Ian Bogost November 13, 2006

categories: Health & Medicine Games

In case you didn't hear, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located right here in Atlanta where I live, is the latest government group to open up shop in Second Life. Sounds like they're mostly using it for public outreach and social marketing, that favorite topic of my friend Liz Losh.

Comments (2)

Wow, this is incredible how far Second Life is going. Who'd have thought these big Government organisations would have got involved? Not me anyway.

Matthew

http://www.BecomeAGameTester.com

Matthew on November 14, 2006 12:04 PM

Nedra Weinreich of the Spare Change social marketing blog has been doing some interesting work on the CDC in Second Life including an interview that explains the project's rationale at http://www.social-marketing.com/blog/2006/11/cdcs-second-life.html

Elizabeth Losh on November 18, 2006 5:27 PM