Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities

ISBN-13: 9781032054971 / Twarda / 2023 / 312 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Playing Law Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy D. Peters Part I: Code as Law, Law as Play 2. Towards a Legal Ludology: Language Games, Playful Magic, and the Game of Law Dale Mitchell 3. Invisible Walls: Facts and Freedom in Coded Space James C. Fisher 4. Emergent Governance from Polycentric Order in Virtual Reality Social Spaces Anne Hobson 5. Emergent Systems: Virtuality, Legality, Formality Daniel Hourigan 6. Decoding Legal (Un)certainty in Doki Doki Literature Club! Ashley Pearson Part II: Worldbuilding and Subject Formation 7. Playing With Borders: Using Video Games to Bring Emotion into the Law Classroom Jean Ketterling 8. One More Turn: The Gamic Afterlives of Johnson v M'Intosh and Digital Settler Colonialism in Sid Meier's Civilization VI S. Thomas Keynes 9. Playing the World Picture: Sid Meier's Civilization and the Law of Abstraction Kieran Tranter 10. A Minor Jurisprudence of Play: Becoming Jurisprudents Through Play in the Majora's Mask Joshua D.M. Shaw Part III: Sites of Law and Jurisprudence 11. Gaming at the Margins of Law or, Niko Bellic's (Critical) Theory of Justice Luis Gómez Romero 12. Law Among Chaos: An Anti-Schmittian Reading of Skyrim Anna Lukina and Shane Finn 13. Grand Theft Neoliberalism James Gilchrist Stewart 14. Terra Nulllius: Claiming Land on Civilization's Empty Earth Conor Leggott 15. Game Over: On Emptying the Public Square Desmond Manderson

O autorze

Dale Mitchell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Ashley Pearson is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Timothy D. Peters is Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.