in ARGs, Gaming, General, Libraries/Info Sci, UNC

Dept. of Public Information

Walking out of work recently, I encountered this flyer on the library’s public bulletin board:
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LOST
ourselves.
To find, please contact the UNC Department of Public Information and receive your
REWARD

The pulltabs to take with you have this link: http://departmentofpublicinformation.blogspot.com

The blog is an interesting collection of links and chronicle of events staged by this group around campus to promote knowledge of student rights on campus.

This is a great example of a semi-ARGish method being used to promote distribution of knowledge and education! One event even led people to relevant books on the library’s shelves.

It’s sort of odd to see the blog promoted now, when there hasn’t been an update for almost a month, but maybe something new will be happening soon. The flyer seems to be grabbing students’ interest – yesterday afternoon there were five pulltabs remaining, and as I write this there’s only one.