Virtual communities such as Second Life and multi-player online games are not exempt from the law, financial regulations and public policy, a researcher in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) argues in two conference papers.
John Bagby, IST professor and co-director of the University’s Institute for Information Policy, recently presented two papers — one dealing with legal implications of virtual worlds and the other outlining financial implications in those communities.
He presented the paper “Public Policy in the Virtual World Imagining: How It Could Curb Your w00t” at Playing to Win ‘08, a two-day conference held at Penn State in April. He presented the paper “Adapting Virtual Finance to Simulate Financial Information Security Risk Analysis: A Risk Management Strategy” at the fifth annual Forum on Financial Information and Cyber Security, held in May at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business.
Source: PSU
Hat Tip: Pete W.
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