Dr Jason Rutter

Jason Rutter is a independent researcher specialising in games, digital media and counterfeiting. He has published widely including the books Understanding Digital Games (2006, Sage) and Digital Game Industries (forthcoming, Ashgate) and special editions of Game Studies (2003) and Information, Communication and Society (2003). Working primarily in the areas of Leisure Technologies (especially digital gaming and mobile telecoms) and counterfeiting and piracy of digital content he has been involved in projects funded by the European Commission, Northern Ireland Office, DTI and ESRC. His recent projects have included mGain [Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture (EC)] and IPTOC [Intellectual Property Theft and Organised Crime (NIO)]. He chaired the European Commission Marie Curie Conference "Putting the Knowledge Based Society into Practice" (April 2006) and the international conferences "Mobile Entertainment: User Centred Perspectives" (2004) and "Playing with the Future" (2002) as well as running the ESRC-funded seminar series "DigiPlay: Experience and Consequence of Technologies of Leisure". He was the inaugural vice-president of the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).

Dr Jo Bryce

Jo Bryce is Director of Research at the Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire. Her research interests focus on the psychological, social and forensic aspects of Information Communications Technologies. In her current role at the CRU, she is the coordinator of the UK national awareness node for child safety on the internet and is the project lead for the EU funded research projects ISCA and INSAFE (Both funded by the EU Safer Internet Plan). The central awareness resource developed by the CRU can be found at www.internetsafetyzone.co.uk . Coordinating the UK awareness node requires collaboration with a variety of key stakeholders from National and European government, enforcement agencies, industry players, children's charities and other NGOs. As part of this process, she is currently a member of the Home Secretary’s Task Force on Child Protection and the Internet Sub Group G on Public Awareness. She has recently co-authored a report on the regulation of harmful content and the protection of human rights in the knowledge economy for the Council of Europe with Dr Rachel O-Connell.