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Download or read book Exploring Animal Crossing written by Bruce Baer Arnold and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Crossing is an innovative virtual world with a global audience beyond traditional online gamers. The book is the first major study, offering an interdisciplinary exploration of copyright and other laws, user creativity and sociability, psychology, the virtual world’s economic and technological basis, uptake during COVID-19, gamification of offline brands, relationships with past/contemporary computer games, and Animal Crossing as an example of the Japanification of online popular culture. The book provides insights for students, researchers and non-specialist readers.