Book ID: CBB947045565

Addiction by design: machine gambling in Las Vegas (2012)

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Schull, Natasha Dow (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 442
Language: English

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)

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Authors & Contributors
Finney, Carolyn
Alan Meades
Doctorow, Cory
Judd, Dennis R.
Witt, Stephanie L.
Turk, Michelle Follette
Concepts
Technology and society
Recreation; play
Gambling
Computers--social aspects
Business history
Video games
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Las Vegas, Nevada
Nevada (U.S.)
Reno (Nevada)
Salt Lake City (Utah)
Pacific Northwest (North America)
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