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CONSENT!
Game URL: slurl.com/secondlife/GK%20Machinima%20Island/176/212/25
Developer: Global Kids/ Digital Refinery
Non-Profit: Global Kids. The game was produced through our Playing 4 Keeps program
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Overall: 89,000
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Brief Description
CONSENT! is a game in Second Life produced with Global Kids Youth leaders in the Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps program that offers a simulation of life as an African-male prisoner confronting five decades of medical racism.
Full Description
CONSENT! is a game in Second Life produced with Global Kids Youth leaders in the Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps program that offers a simulation of life as an African-male prisoner confronting five decades of medical racism. Over the course of the game, the player moves from decade to decade, deciding whether or not to participate in the research opportunities offered and, in the process, understanding the differences between consent, informed consent and whether any consent is possible with a coercive environment. If the player survives to arrive in the present, and be freed from Jail, they receive a detailed analysis of the affect the research may or may not have on their life as a free man. The content of the game is based of Harriet Washington's book Medical Apartheid.
Target Audience: Teenagers. A version for adults is being developed (technically) for adults in the main grid of Second Life, once we find the appropriate host.
Social Issues Addressed: politics,
Purpose:
To educate people about the nature of consent within a coercive environment and inspire them to take action in the current political climate that is rolling back prisoner's rights.
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How? number of players
What outcomes have been measured? funding, publicity, evaluation, other: Land in Second Life
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Name: Barry Joseph
Email: bjinfo2@globalkids.org
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Game Tags: secondlife, consent, prisonersrights
Where you can play this game: Only by teens in Teen Second Life but we hope soon in Second Life as well. A short video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63UOv3qUn4
