Games law research

In July 2007 the project launched a new research group to investigate issues relating to computer games and regulation, control, law and policy. The group runs an active email list with a subscription base that includes a number of games industry and legal industry professionals. In September Dr Sal Humphreys delivered a refereed paper, ‘Online social softwares: policy and regulation in a converged medium’, to the Communications Policy Research Forum in Sydney. She also presented a paper on ‘Regulation of online social environments: old institutions meet emergent media’ at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference in Vancouver in October, and another on ‘Discursive constructions of online social software’ at the Interactive Entertainment 07 conference at RMIT in Melbourne in December. Dr Humphreys also attended the ‘Amateur Hour’ conference at the New York University Law School in November. Nic Suzor from the QUT law school spoke at the ‘State of Play’ conference on games and law in Singapore in August.