Jason Rutter

Marie Curie Research Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Research field: Social Sciences - Sociology
Piracy, peer-to-peer, counterfeiting, digital games, online communities, sociology of the everyday, interaction, conversation analysis.

Publications

Book (1)
- Jason Rutter, J. Bryce (2006) Understanding Digital Games. In Sage.
Book Section (11)
- Garry Crawford, Jason Rutter (2007) Playing the Game: Performance in digital game audiences, 271-281. In Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World.
- J. Bryce, J. Rutter (2006) An introduction to understanding digital games, 1-17. In Understanding Digital Games.
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- Garry Crawford, Jason Rutter (2006) Digital Games and Cultural Studies, 148-165. In Understanding Digital Games.
- J Bryce, Jason Rutter (2006) Digital Games and Gender, 186-204. In Understanding Digital Games.
- J. Bryce, Jason Rutter (2006) Digital Games and the Violence Debate, 205-222. In Understanding Digital Games.
- Jason Rutter, Greg Smith (2005) Ethnographic Presence in a Nebulous Setting, 81-92. In Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet.
- J. Bryce, Jason Rutter (2005) Gendered Gaming in Gendered Spaces, 301-310. In Handbook of Computer Game Studies.
- J. Bryce, Jason Rutter (2003) The Gendering of Computer Gaming: Experience and Space, 3-22. In Leisure Cultures: Investigations in Sport, Media and Technology.
- J. Bryce, Jason Rutter (2002) Spectacle of the Deathmatch: Character and Narrative in First Person Shooters, 66-80. In ScreenPlay: Cinema/videogames/interfaces.
- Jason Rutter (1998) Wayne’s World. In The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture & Society.
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Conference Proceedings (1)
- J Bryce, Jason Rutter (2002) Killing like a girl: gendered gaming and girl gamers' visibility, 243-256. In Paper presented at the Computer Games and Digital Culture Conferences.
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Journal Article (8)
- J Rutter, J Bryce (2008) The Consumption of Counterfeit Goods: 'Here Be Pirates?', 1146-1164. In Sociology 42 (6).
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- J Bryce, Jason Rutter (2007) Poca diversión: las barreras de las aficionados a los videojuegos/Not Much Fun: The constraining of female video gamers, 97 - 108. In ADOZ Journal of Leisure Studies.
- Jason Rutter, J. Bryce (2003) Editorial Comment, 5-11. In Information, Communication & Society 6 (4).
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- J. Bryce, Jason Rutter (2003) Gender dynamics and the social and spatial organization of computer gaming, 1-15. In Leisure Studies 22 (1).
- Jason Rutter (2001) From the Sociology of Trust Towards a Sociology of 'E-trust', 371-385. In International Journal of New Product Development & Innovation Management 2 (4).
- Jason Rutter (2001) Rhetoric in Stand-up Comedy: Exploring Performer-Audience Interaction, 307-325. In Stylistyka.
- Jason Rutter, Dale Southerton (2000) E-commerce: delivering the goods?, 139-144. In Consumer Policy Review 10 (3).
- Jason Rutter (2000) The Introductions of Stand-up Performers: Comparing Comedy Compères, 463-483. In Journal of Pragmatics 32 (4).
Report (1)
- C. Marsden, J. Cave, E. Nason et al. (2006) Assessing Indirect Impacts of the EC Proposals for Video Regulation.
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Awards and Grants

Nov 2009

Socio-Technical Evolution of Intellectual Property Online: Creating Counterfeit Culture (STEVO)
Mar 2008

Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects pf the Consumption of Counterfeit Goods (COUNTER)
Sep 2006

Hidden Innovation in the Creative sectors
Jul 2004

Intellectual Property Theft and Organised Crime (IPTOC)
Jan 2003

DigiPlay: Experience and Consequence of Technologies of Leisure
Sep 2002

Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture (mGain)

Biographical Information

Jason Rutter is a research active academic with international experience and an impressive track record for attracting funding and generating publications.

He has significant multidisciplinary experience of collaborating with national and European teams on projects involving industry, policy and academic users. He has demonstrated effective capabilities in initiating projects including international research teams in addition to academic and training conferences. He has actively pursued policy orientated research and reporting but maintains a strong commitment to high level scientific research and a focus on REF relevant outputs.

Dr Rutter has international research management experience through chairing Economics and Social Science evaluation panels for the European Commission and has recently been invited by the Research Executive Agency to act as the Independent Observer across The Marie Curie Individual Fellowship schemes. Through his research career he has successfully managed academic colleagues, worked closely with university finance and research systems and supervised postgraduate student research.

He is currently employed at the Catholic University of Leuven where he is funded by the European Commission to study the consumption of illegally copied digital media. He also maintains the Digiplay online bibliography of computer games research.