Jason Rutter & Jo Bryce
Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE

Draft Prepublication Paper: Forthcoming, Sociology.

Abstract

Social science, policy and popular discourse around counterfeiting regularly position consumers of counterfeit goods as part of a technological elite or motivated by anti-capitalist or anti-corporate positions. In order to explore this construction and highlight its associated limitations, this paper presents quantitative data collected through postal and web-based questionnaires looking at the frequency, location and motivations for the purchase of counterfeit leisure items for consumers in the United Kingdom.

The interim report from this research is now available online.

30th August 2007
NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London

As part of an ongoing study concerning ‘Hidden Innovation in UK Creative Industries’, colleagues at Manchester Business School are organising a short Workshop event for Game Development professionals and we would be very pleased if you could come along to join us and participate in the event. The event will take place on Thursday 30th August at the NESTA offices in London.

At this year's BFI Media Studies conference Jason Rutter was invited to give a presentation on video games and gender.

The presentation built upon the chapter on digital games and gender from Rutter and Bryce's 2006 book, "Understanding Digital Games" and looked at how text, practice and technology act together to exclude potential female gamers from participation in this leisure activity.

To make searching the Digiplay Games Research Bibliography a little easier, registered users can now use a simple form which will just return pages from the bibliography.

If you are currently logged on you will be able to see a form towards the top of the right hand column of this page - conveniently labelled 'Biblio Search'. Just enter your search term and press 'Search Bibliography'. This works for names, titles and abstracts.

Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter (Eds)
ISBN: 1-84052-012-4

An electronic version of the collected proceedings from the 2004 conference "Mobile Entertainment:User-centred Perspectives" is available online for free (6.5Mb Acrobat file). Hard copies are also available. Costing £20 they can be ordered from Joyce.Wilson@manchester.ac.uk.

This report is the published summary of work we undertook on the consumption of counterfeit goods including digital games and internet piracy.

The publication details the background, empirical and analytical research undertaken during the Intellectual Property Theft and Organised Crime research project (IPTOC) and provides a robust insight into contemporary consumption of counterfeit/pirated goods and illegal downloading in England and Northern Ireland.

Here's a little curio which might be more interesting than useful...

The Digiplay games research bibliography contains a broad collection of keywords from journal and other papers relating to digital games. What we've started to do here at Digiplay is copy all those keywords into a database and look at what a tag cloud made from them might look like.

The move of the Digiplay digital games research bibliography to this new Digiplay site is now finished and online!

We've gone through every gaming reference whether it be a journal paper, chapter of conference presentation and checked it, removed duplicates, updates abstracts and added URLs to the full paper. This means that we now list a total of 1933 citations in our games bibliography database.

The second lot of updates to the Digiplay digital games research bibliography has been completed! With the addition of references from authors 'M' through to 'R' we now have a total of 1493 entries in the games bibliography database.