Bibliograph

Addiction by design, machine gambling in Las Vegas, Natasha Dow Schüll

Type

Label

Addiction by design, machine gambling in Las Vegas, Natasha Dow Schüll

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-423) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Addiction by design

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

777327460

Responsibility statement

Natasha Dow Schüll

Sub title

machine gambling in Las Vegas

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."--Publisher description

Table Of Contents

Introduction: mapping the machine zone -- Interior design for interior states: architecture, ambience, and affect -- Engineering experience: the productive economy of player-centric design -- Programming chances: the calculation of enchantment -- Matching the market: innovation, intensification, habituation -- Live data: tracking players, guiding play -- Perfect contingency: from control to compulsion -- Gambled away: liquidating life -- Overdrive: chasing loss, playing to extinction -- Balancing acts: the double bind of therapeutics -- Fix upon fix: recipes for regulating risk -- Conclusion: raising the stakes

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