
Pieterjan Declerck
@pieterjandec
PhD Researcher at Ghent University, Faculty of Law - Project Gam(e)(a)ble on the blurring lines between video gaming and gambling and its impact on children.
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https://www.gameable.info/ 09-01-2013 15:46:40
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In our latest blog article, Pieterjan Declerck from UGent analyses the new EU resolution on #consumer protection in digital #games from the perspective of FWO-financed project GAM(e)(a)BLE and reflects about potential further steps gameable.info/post/new-eu-re…


Exciting news for #LootBoxes #VideoGames #Monetisation researchers! 🎰 🎮 I am co-editing a special issue of JournalGamblingIssues with Dr nigel turner: “Thinking Outside the Loot Box” 🎁 🤯 Submissions can be from any discipline. More info: osf.io/qa3ht Please RT!



On the 24th of May, we had the honor of setting up a webinar for the World Health Organisation World Health Organization (WHO) and our own stakeholders: "The blurring lines between video #gaming and gambling: An #ecosystem perspective".


Great news! 📚✨ Happy to have contributed to this book - together with Peggy Valcke - with a chapter on minimum harmonisation of advertising rules.

One more GAM(e)(a)BLE publication! Maarten Denoo @biekezaman Eva Grosemans @stevenmalliet wrote about "Making Complexity Measurable in Practice: A Formal #Analysis of Gamble-Play media" in #gamesandculture! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15… 🔽


.The Guardian Rob Davies: “experts warn the UK is not doing enough to tackle gambling-style features in games…” I am one of those experts. 🤓 Cf. the Australian Gov 🇦🇺 announced simulated/social casino games will be rated 18+ (minister.infrastructure.gov.au/rowland/media-…). theguardian.com/society/2023/j…


Do you develop digital products used by or likely to impact on children? Or do you teach ethical design? Download #DigitalFutures #PlayfulByDesign toolkit today! Or request a pack of cards from digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/playful-by-des… 5Rights Foundation LSE Media & Communications #DigitalFutures4Children #ChildRights



🎉new publication for GAM(e)(a)BLE about circumventers of the #Belgian "ban" on #lootboxes! Our researchers Maarten Denoo Bruno Dupont Eva Grosemans @biekezaman Rozane De Cock analyzed circumventing as #counterplay practice (@t0MM7)

📲 Addictive design of online services ➡️ The draft report by Kim van Sparrentak was just approved in IMCO Committee Press with 38 in favour ⬆️ 1 abstention ↔️ More in the press release ↘️ europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…


Our critique of the Dutch court’s judgment. 🇳🇱 #LootBoxes should be scrutinised on their own, and focusing on the so-called “majority” of players ignores the experience of the minority of vulnerable players. Pieterjan Declerck GAM(e)(a)BLE Gaming Law Review bit.ly/47n14ny



📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Hiring a Research Assistant for a project on gambling & game advertising on social media. You'll be working with me and Leon Xiao on our Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling (AFSG) funded project! (link to ad below) 💻 Based at University of Lincoln, UK / remote. 🧍Lived experience applicants encouraged.