Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law (TechNomos)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000987836

Related ISBNs:

9781032054988, 9781003197805, 9781032054971

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/19/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Dale Mitchell

Edited by:

Ashley Pearson

Edited by:

Timothy D. Peters