Ren Reynolds
BERR-OECD 2009
the Virtual Policy Network organized themes and speakers for a a workshop on 11 March 2009 convened by the UK Government’s Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) with OECD’s Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). The workshop examined the following themes:
How can virtual worlds contribute to innovation, to transformation of [...]
BAFTA
10th March 2009, Hilton Park Lane, London: As a member of this year’s BAFTA Video Game awards jury for Multiplayer Games Ren Reynolds will be attending the awards ceremony.
British Library: Digitial Lives
On 11th Febuary 2009 Ren Reynolds spoke at the First Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century at the British Library in London.
CETIS-Eduserv-VW2009
16th January 2009, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK: Ren Reynolds lead a conference discussion at ‘Maximising the effectiveness of virtual worlds in teaching and learning‘ exploring the policy road blocks to the greater adoption of virtual technology in education.
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Journal of VW Research Debate
25th November 2008, Second Life: Ren Reynolds will take part in a debate hosted in Second Life by the Journal of Virtual Worlds Resarch to discus the state and future of scholarship in this area.
ReLIVE08
21st November 2008, Milton Keynes, UK: Ren Reynolds was chair for a Question Time style debate at the Open Universty event Researching Learning in Virtual Environments – ReLIVE08. The panel will included: Edward Castronova (Indiana University), Roo Reynolds (BBC), Bill Thompson and Claudia L’Amoreaux (Linden Lab).
World Game Cultures – Korea
14th November 2008, Seoul, Korea: Ren Reynolds was invited by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism’s Korean Game Industry Agency (KAOGI) to prest at the 2nd World Games Cultures Conference – New Vision on Game Culture. Ren’s presentation covered the mulit-layered nature of game and virtual world culture in a globalized society.
Player Governance & EvE
7th November 2008, Reykjavík, Iceland: tVPN’s Ren Reynolds was invited by CCP, creators of EvE Online, to act as the neutral moderator at the pubic meeting / Q&A session of the EvE Council of Stellar Management (CSM). The CSM is the largest experiments in ‘player democracy’ in a current MMO.
The video of the session can [...]
More Fun, More Risk?
17th October 2008, Berlin, Germany: Ren Reynolds was invited by the Hans-Bredow-Institut to give the closing address at ‘More Fun, More Risk? Digital Games as a Challenge for the Protection of Minors‘ a conference of European content regulators and academics.
Ren discussed the contingent nature of the conceptual frames that are used in regulation and [...]
Serious Virtual Worlds
12th September 2008, Coventry, UK: Ren Reynolds gave a presentation titled “Crossing the Policy Chasm” at Serious Virtual Worlds ’08 hosted by Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute. The presentation looked at the challenges and pitfalls faced by ‘serious’ virtual worlds when trying to being taken seriously by policy makers.
