IEEE SSIT forum: "WOW, they’re uncontrollable: Online games, censorship and the crisis of control" (Melbourne, 13 May 2009)

Posted by Nic | Censorship,Game Censorship,General | Wednesday 6 May 2009 8:40 am

Dr Greg Adamson, Chair, SSIT Australia advises that the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is running a forum next week about online gaming and censorship that promises to be very interesting.

WOW, they’re uncontrollable: Online games, censorship and the crisis of control

6:00-7:30pm, Wednesday 13 May 2009

Dr. Jeffrey E. Brand, Associate Dean and Head of School, Communication and Media, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bond University

Melbourne University, cnr Grattan & Barry Sts, Carlton. No charge, all welcome.
Brochure at: http://ssit.ieeevic.org/upcoming.php

7 Comments

  1. Comment by David Simon — May 12, 2009 @ 3:11 am

    Ah, yes, how do you classify something which has non-static content? In my opinion the classification system does not currently cater for this at all, and attempts by regulators to classify online games (with user generated content or other content not in the "original" game) using the current scheme are difficult to justify. Online games such as these require an approach not currently supported by the existing classification scheme, and require a policy re-think.

    How will this work with the existing Schedule 5 and Schedule 7 of the Broadcasting Services Act, which in my opinion grant the ACMA jurisdiction over the internet and its contents, including games.

  2. Comment by FrankFN — June 16, 2009 @ 11:40 am

    I heard from several sources that people didnt recieve the product they bought from amazon
    is this true?

  3. Comment by Phong — June 26, 2009 @ 1:42 am

    Conroy never ceases to amaze me.

  4. Comment by DiViDeD — June 27, 2009 @ 1:52 am

    OK, I'm signing up right now! All that guff about 'protecting the children', 'detestable Child Pornography' and 'Extreme Pr0n' they fed us turns out to be the lie we always knew it would be. We have a government who won't be happy intil all you can see on teh Interwebs are cute kittens and fluffy clouds.

    The internet is an anarchy - always has been. It was built by adults FOR adults. Do we insist that the girls in strip clubs keep their clothes on in case a child is shocked? No, we bloody well keep them out of there. If the government want a pink fluffy internet, let them build their own.

    BTW, same goes for PC games. They were originally developed for an audience that was exclusively adult (and, let's face it, almost entirely male 25-35), until big business saw a way to make big money peddling it to kids. Sorry, I think my spleen just exploded - obviously, with this government I'm going to have to fit a bigger vent.

  5. Comment by MichaellaS — July 21, 2009 @ 5:51 pm

    tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

  6. Comment by Beadsseigneda — August 29, 2009 @ 9:24 am

    Anyone know any other http://www.girlsgametoo.com - Girls Games my 10yr daughter can play online

    thanks

  7. Comment by forex-mmcis — September 19, 2009 @ 11:36 am

    Аналитики инвестиционного фонда MMCIS investments заявляют, что опубликованные отчеты за июль свидетельствуют о стабилизации ситуации на инвестиционном рынке. ПИФы показывают стабильные доходы, а инвесторы начинают активно вкладывать снятые ранее с депозитов средства.

    Так, инвестиционный фонд MMCIS investments объявил о доходности за июль 2009 года в размере 42% годовых для депозитов в долларах США, что на 10% больше доходности за июнь 2009 года и на 31% больше доходности за январь 2009 года. Стабилизировавшийся рост, начавшийся с марта 2009 года, позволил MMCIS investments выйти и удержать запланированный уровень доходности в 50% годовых. Здесь Вы можете подробнее узнать о forex-mmcis ru<a>

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.