Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.
Addiction by Design by"Natasha Dow Schüll"
Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the \
Addiction by Design
By:"Natasha Dow Schüll"
Published on 2012-08-20 by Princeton University Press
BOOKS ID : JcF0mcvVOEwC
Ebook Title : Addiction by Design
ETAG : UQ4O0o917+U
ISBN_13 Code : 9781400834655
ISBN_10 Code : 1400834651
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 1 for keyword gambling machines
Book Author :"Natasha Dow Schüll"
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Book Pages Count : 456
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Social Science"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED
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