Edited book
Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law
TechNomos: Law, Technology and Culture, Routledge
2024
Abstract
This edited volume explores the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law through an insightful collection of critical readings.
Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Involving a process of world-creation, law presents and codifies the parameters of licit and permitted behaviour, requiring individuals to engage their roles as a legal subject - the player-avatar of law - in order to be recognised, perform legal actions, activate rights, or fulfil legal duties. Although traditional forms of law (copyright, property, privacy, freedom of expression) externally regulate the permissible content, form, dissemination, rights, and behaviours of game designers, publishers, and players, this collection examines how players simulate, relate, and engage with environments and experiences shaped by legality in the realm of video game space.
Featuring critical readings of video games as a means of understanding law and justice, this book contributes to the developing field of cultural legal studies but will also be of interest to other legal theorists, socio-legal scholars, and games theorists.
Details
- Title
- Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law
- Authors
- Dale Mitchell (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyAshley Pearson (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyTimothy Peters (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- 322 pages
- Series
- TechNomos: Law, Technology and Culture
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003197805
- ISBN
- 9781032054988; 9781032054971; 9781003197805
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99749698202621
- Output Type
- Edited book
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