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First 100 Days : a tabletop game for open-minded political conversations
(2018-05-10) Levent, Ekin; Gorman, Carma; Walker, James, M.F.A.
The 2016 presidential election that resulted in the presidency of Donald J. Trump has increased the ideological polarization between people in the United States. Today, Americans find having political conversations with someone who holds opposite political beliefs frustrating, and often report finding that they have even less in common with the person than they expected after having a political conversation with them. First 100 Days is a tabletop game that makes it possible for people of different ideological stripes to have open-minded conversations with one another about President Donald J. Trump’s first hundred days in office. In the game, players create headlines with a left, right, centrist, or “fake news” spin in response to Trump’s tweets about events that unfolded during those first hundred days. The cards that players use to construct these headlines contain words derived from converting a Kaggle open-source dataset of news headlines and RSS feeds dated between 2016 and 2017 into a text document, filtering it to eliminate irrelevant content, and “text mining” it in RStudio to determine which words were used most frequently in headlines/RSS feeds between January 20 and April 29, 2017, the president’s first hundred days in office.