Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas /

"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 o...

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Main Author: Schu⁺ll, Natasha Dow, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012
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245 1 0 |a Addiction by design :  |b machine gambling in Las Vegas /  |c Natasha Dow Schu⁺ll 
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300 |a xi, 442 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 25 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-423) and index 
505 0 |a 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 
520 |a "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 
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