reACTor: a location-based mobile gaming app that connects news with social action by Josephine Dorado

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reACTor: a location-based mobile gaming app that connects news with social action

- Josephine Dorado

reACTor (working title, based on fractor.org) is an initiative to create a mobile game that allows users to "play the news" -- players would be shown the news 1000 feet around them (or other specified distance), and then are presented with social actions and volunteer opportunities associated with that news.

Bio:

Dorado is a New York-based media artist, producer, social entrepreneur and skydiver. In her work, she explores the extension of the performance environment with technology and the process of cultural exchange through creative interplay in virtual spaces. She initiated the Kidz Connect program, which connects youth internationally via creative collaboration and theatrical performance in virtual worlds, and received a MacArthur Foundation award to co-found Fractor.org, which matches news with opportunities for activism. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and an artist-in-residence at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and continues her involvement with Fulbright as a member of the Board of Directors. @funksoup, http://funksoup.com



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