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From “Sandbox” to “Arena”: A Comparative Study of CodeCombat
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This study asks how the same game-based coding platform, CodeCombat, is recontextualized through social-media marketing in the United States and China from 2020 to 2026. Drawing on critical glocalization and Van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework, I analyze stratified samples of CodeCombat’s U.S.-facing Twitter posts (n = 121) and Chinese-facing WeChat articles (n = 250) coded through twelve themes. The findings document a mirror inversion: interest-driven themes appear in 74 percent of Twitter posts but only 25 percent of WeChat articles, while achievement-driven themes appear in 62 percent of WeChat articles but only 15 percent of Twitter posts. The two contexts construct opposite ideal learners: an autonomous Maker on Twitter and a Diligent Competitor on WeChat, sustained by systematically different legitimation strategies; the post-ChatGPT moment has hardened this divergence. The case suggests that glocalization can substitute one educational discourse for another, with the marketing wrapper consenting to each system’s stratifying logic.
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