"Jason Rutter is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School for Mass Communication Research at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He specialises in games, digital media and counterfeiting and is currently funded by The European Commission's People programme through the STEVO Project (‘The Socio-Technical EVOlution of intellectual property online: Creating counterfeit culture’). He has published widely including the books Understanding Digital Games (2006, Sage) and special editions of Game Studies and Information, Communication and Society. 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."