Regulating the Metaverse: A Critical Assessment

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Regulating the Metaverse: A Critical Assessment

Edited by Ignas Kalpokas · Julija Kalpokiene
Routledge August 2024

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ISBN-13
9781032410203
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
August 2024
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from technology companies and venture capitalists, the authors critically evaluate the antecedents and the building blocks of the metaverse, the design and regulatory challenges that need to be solved, and commercial opportunities that are yet to be fully realised. While the metaverse is poised to open new possibilities and perspectives, it will also be a dangerous place – one ripe with threats ranging from disinformation to intellectual property theft to sexual harassment. Hence, the book offers a useful guide to the legal and political governance issues ahead while also contextualising them within the broader domain of governance and regulation of digital technologies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Why Now: From Mediatization to Virtualization
Mediatisation and the Immersed Individual
Platformisation, Datafication, and the Technology-Experience Nexus
3. Understanding the Metaverse: Beyond the Hype
Building the Metaverse: Key Opportunities and Challenges
Experiencing the Metaverse: Enhancements and Limitations
4. Doing Things in the Metaverse: From Journalism to Art and Sex
The Economic Side of the Metaverse
Acting and Feeling in the Metaverse
5. Life, Law, and Governance
Conceptualising Life
Conceptualising Governance
6. Security, Regulation, and Other Challenges
Old Wine in New Bottles
New Wine in Old Bottles
7. Concluding Thoughts
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