2023
DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2023.2248524
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Digital distinction: class as mediated dispositions in China’s Animal Crossing fever

Yichen Rao,
Jieyi Xie
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“…A further phenomenon related to the pandemic period was also the change in the typical users of the game, noting a marked increase in the average age of players, who began to use the platform as a form of escapism, as a kind of synthetic society in response to isolation (Comerford 2021;Pearce et al 2022). Within this life simulator, the relational dimension has become crucial, as has that of consumption, including aesthetic or fashion, along with peculiar dynamics of class distinction (Rao, Xie 2023). The reason that brought attention to the platform, apart from the aforementioned possibility of bottom-up production of fashion objects and accessories, was also the 'social' nature of the consumption of these goods, the simulated world of Animal Crossing being characterised not only by interaction with machine-controlled characters, but also with other real users (Lazzeretti, Gatti 2023).…”
Section: Animal Crossing: New Horizons a Brief Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A further phenomenon related to the pandemic period was also the change in the typical users of the game, noting a marked increase in the average age of players, who began to use the platform as a form of escapism, as a kind of synthetic society in response to isolation (Comerford 2021;Pearce et al 2022). Within this life simulator, the relational dimension has become crucial, as has that of consumption, including aesthetic or fashion, along with peculiar dynamics of class distinction (Rao, Xie 2023). The reason that brought attention to the platform, apart from the aforementioned possibility of bottom-up production of fashion objects and accessories, was also the 'social' nature of the consumption of these goods, the simulated world of Animal Crossing being characterised not only by interaction with machine-controlled characters, but also with other real users (Lazzeretti, Gatti 2023).…”
Section: Animal Crossing: New Horizons a Brief Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%