Schull, Natasha Dow (Author)
Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
Physical Details: 442
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)
...MoreReview Hsu, Hansen (December 2013) Review of "Addiction by design: machine gambling in Las Vegas". Social Studies of Science (pp. 952-956).
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