Law, video games, virtual realities : playing law / edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters.

"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 codifie...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Mitchell, Dale, 1951- (Editor), Pearson, Ashley (Ashley J.) (Editor), Peters, Timothy D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Series:Technomos.
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781000987836
1000987833
9781003197805
1003197809