Addiction by Design Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Name: Addiction by Design Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Price: 16.53 USD
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ISBN: 9780691160887

ISBN-10: 0691160880

ISBN-13: 9780691160887

Edition: 2012

Authors: Natasha Dow Schï¿½ll, Natasha Dow Schï¿½ll

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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 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 Schll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English