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3.1 the past neighborhood: extension or supplement

All my participants are from the same college and the lived close to each other during their college life. Since they have all graduated from the school, their real-life neighborhood has no longer existed. Gemini thought that they have rebuilt their neighborhood in the game since they share latest game-related information in the WeChat group, gather in the island and do some group activities, visit each island every now and then, which is exactly what they did in their college neighborhood.

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Kiki preferred to regard the game as the supplement of their old neighborhood. “I don’t think it replicates the old neighborhood that we share. They have something in common but the major part is totally different. Game is just a small part of our life. You can’t use the small part to represent all.” Although the co-presence is achieved in the online neighborhood, the time doesn’t last long. It is thus difficult to recreate the old neighborhood as they spent most of the day together in the past.