Gamification entered the cultural lexicon several years ago, as activists, businesses, and educators learned that people responded to concrete tasks and positive reinforcement. Sometimes, though, it's easy to see the threads of what came before. Al Gore's Reality Drop is touted as a new social game, but it's more of an achievement system for one of the oldest political games around: earn ranks by sharing talking points.
Reality Drop is meant to counter climate change denial by crawling the web for articles and sorting them into "red" and "green" sections by user voting. Green posts contain accurate information based on Gore's models. Red posts, on the other hand, contain myths, apparently identified automatically and then corroborated...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4054408/al-gore-reality-drop-gamifies-climate-change-commenting
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