

{"id":2972,"date":"2023-02-14T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/crancy-uncle-a-game-building-resilience-against-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:43:39","slug":"crancy-uncle-a-game-building-resilience-against-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/crancy-uncle-a-game-building-resilience-against-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranky Uncle | A game building resilience against misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. The game was developed by Monash University scientist John Cook, in collaboration with creative agency Goodbeast. The game is now available for free on iPhone and Android.<\/p>\n<p>Cranky Uncle is the creation of <strong>scientist and cartoonist John Cook<\/strong>, who uses cartoons, humor, and critical thinking to expose the misleading techniques of science denial and build public resilience against misinformation. To explain why and how some people reject scientific evidence, Cook created the character Cranky Uncle, the family member we all have who thinks he knows better than the world\u2019s scientists, in the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change. <\/p>\n<p>The game is currently available <strong>in 8 languages<\/strong> (English, German, Spanish, French, Portugese, Swedish, Italian, Dutch)<\/p>\n<p>Find out more: <a href=\"https:\/\/crankyuncle.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crankyuncle.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Play in browser: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.crankyuncle.info\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/app.crankyuncle.info<\/a><br \/>\nAndroid app: <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=info.crankyuncle.app.game\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=info.crankyuncle.app.game<\/a><br \/>\niOs app: <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/cranky-uncle\/id1531525625\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/cranky-uncle\/id1531525625<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. The game was developed by Monash University scientist John Cook, in collaboration with creative agency Goodbeast. The game is now available for free on iPhone and Android. Cranky Uncle is the creation of scientist and cartoonist John Cook, who uses cartoons, humor, and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platform.amelieproject.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}