Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connnor is apparently involved in a project to bring Constitutional jurisprudence to the online gaming world:
If you imagine what Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is doing in her retirement, you might not come up with this: Designing provocative clothing for virtual avatars to wear in a multiplayer online game.
But potentially offensive t-shirts, and the First Amendment issues they may raise, are in fact a key part of the computer game that the retired justice is helping design as part of an elaborate civics education program she is sponsoring.
Speaking Wednesday afternoon at the annual Games for Change conference held at the New School, Justice O’Connor described the game that will be offered free next year on the Internet. It is one of the main efforts of the Our Courts project that Justice O’Connor started in conjunction with Arizona State University and the Georgetown Law School. The game is being developed with James Gee, a professor at University of Wisconsin who studies the educational effect of video games.
The first episode of the will revolve around “a t-shirt with a logo on it that high school students are passing around and want to wear,” Justice O’Connor said. “That will involve some kind of issue that involves a First Amendment question.”
I can imagine this getting out of hand really quickly, which just makes it more fun to anticipate.
