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28%OFFNatasha Dow Schull - Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas - 9780691160887 - V9780691160887
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

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Description for Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 456 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
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 Schull shows how the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691160887
SKU
V9780691160887
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-31

About Natasha Dow Schull
Natasha Dow Schull is associate professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews for Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Winner of the 2013 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society Honorable Mention for the 2013 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology The Atlantic Editors' The Best Book I Read This Year for 2013, chosen by senior editor Alexis C. Madrigal Natasha Dow Schull, an anthropologist at MIT, has written a timely book. Ms ... Read more

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