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
Brian Jordan Jefferson
Alan Meades
Doctorow, Cory
Amy F. Ogata
Judd, Dennis R.
Witt, Stephanie L.
Journals
Technology and Culture
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Railroad History
Business History Review
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Publishers
University of Nevada Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Nebraska Press
MIT Press
Penguin Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Technology and society
Recreation; play
Gambling
Computers--social aspects
Business history
Video games
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Las Vegas, Nevada
Nevada (U.S.)
Reno (Nevada)
Salt Lake City (Utah)
Pacific Northwest (North America)
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