On Monday, February 23rd, Champlain students Wesley Knee and Lauren Nishikawa, accompanied by Emergent Media Center founder and director Ann DeMarle, joined Jane Lindholm on the episode "Electronic Games: New Image, New Roles in 21st Century Culture" of Vermont Edition, a program on Vermont Public Radio.  The show focused on the future of the gaming industry and how Champlain College's gaming programs, as well as the Emergent Media Center are helping to contribute to this growing field.

Listen to audio of the interview below or visit http://www.vpr.net/flash/audio_player/audio_player.php?id=27655.

(Excerpt below from VPR website http://www.vpr.net/episode/45488/)

E-Games
New Image, New Roles in 21st Century Culture

By Jane Lindholm

Video games have become more than just a way for aimless kids to waste their time. New research shows that playing e-games can actually foster civic engagement and moral and ethical decision making among youth. Gaming is also a $9.5 billion dollar industry in the U.S. alone. And game design and programming have become the third most popular major at Vermont's Champlain College, a pioneer in academic study in the gaming field.

We'll talk with Ann DeMarle, the founder and director of Champlain's Emergent Media Center, about e-games and the work her students are doing. And we'll talk with two of those students, Lauren Nishikawa and Wesley Knee, about the role they see for e-games in 21st Century culture.

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