Exploring Animal Crossing: Law, Culture and Business

by Bruce Baer Arnold

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839980060
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	01/09/2024
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bruce Baer Arnold teaches innovation law at the University of Canberra, lectures in other disciplines in Australian universities and has published widely on online culture, business, creativity and law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins and Owners; 3. The Animal Crossing Experience; 4. Sociability in a Virtual World; 5. The Curation Economy; 6. Island Cultures; 7. Law in a Virtual World; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index