Addiction by Design : Machine Gambling in Las Vegas /

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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. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schüll, Natasha Dow, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dependance (psychologie)
Comportement compulsif.
Jeu pathologique.
Joueurs (jeux de hasard) > États-Unis > Las Vegas (Nev.)
Unterhaltungsindustrie
Industriedesign
Ausstattung
Spielbank
Gestaltung
Computerspiel
Spielautomat
Gewöhnung
Spielsucht
Glücksspiel
Gambling > Equipment and supplies.
Gambling.
Compulsive gambling.
Casinos.
Compulsive behavior.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SELF-HELP > Depression.
addiction.
Casinos > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Jeux de hasard > Nevada > Las Vegas > Materiel.
Jeux de hasard > Comportement compulsif > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Jeux de hasard > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Behavior, Addictive
Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas > Equipment and supplies.
Compulsive gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas.
USA
Las Vegas, Nev.
Nevada > Las Vegas.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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. 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (456 pages).
ISBN:9781400834655

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