Law, video games, virtual realities : playing law / Edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson and Timothy D. Peters. - viii, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. - TechNomos .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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. -- first page

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Video games--Law and legislation.
Game laws.
Augmented reality--Law and legislation.
Digital media--Law and legislation.
Online identities.

K 3705 .V53 / L39 2024