Addiction by Design : : Machine Gambling in Las Vegas / / Natasha Dow Schüll.
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 gamblin...
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Schüll, Natasha Dow, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Addiction by Design : Machine Gambling in Las Vegas / Natasha Dow Schüll. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (456 p.) : 29 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Informant Anonymity -- Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone -- Part One: Design -- The Defibrillator Experiment -- 1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect -- 2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player-Centric Design -- 3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment -- Part Two: Feedback -- The Rat People -- 4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation -- 5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play -- 6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion -- Part Three: Addiction -- Convenience Gambling -- 7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life -- 8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction -- Part Four: Adjustment -- Terry's Machines -- 9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics -- 10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk -- Conclusion: Raising the Stakes -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two.Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Casinos Nevada Las Vegas. Compulsive gambling Nevada Las Vegas. Gambling Equipment and supplies Nevada Las Vegas. Gambling Nevada Las Vegas. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691160887 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834655 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400834655 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400834655.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Informant Anonymity -- Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone -- Part One: Design -- The Defibrillator Experiment -- 1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect -- 2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player-Centric Design -- 3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment -- Part Two: Feedback -- The Rat People -- 4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation -- 5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play -- 6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion -- Part Three: Addiction -- Convenience Gambling -- 7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life -- 8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction -- Part Four: Adjustment -- Terry's Machines -- 9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics -- 10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk -- Conclusion: Raising the Stakes -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Informant Anonymity -- Introduction: Mapping the Machine Zone -- Part One: Design -- The Defibrillator Experiment -- 1. Interior Design for Interior States: Architecture, Ambience, and Affect -- 2. Engineering Experience: The Productive Economy of Player-Centric Design -- 3. Programming Chance: The Calculation of Enchantment -- Part Two: Feedback -- The Rat People -- 4. Matching the Market: Innovation, Intensification, Habituation -- 5. Live Data: Tracking Players, Guiding Play -- 6. Perfect Contingency: From Control to Compulsion -- Part Three: Addiction -- Convenience Gambling -- 7. Gambled Away: Liquidating Life -- 8. Overdrive: Chasing Loss, Playing to Extinction -- Part Four: Adjustment -- Terry's Machines -- 9. Balancing Acts: The Double Bind of Therapeutics -- 10. Fix upon Fix: Recipes for Regulating Risk -- Conclusion: Raising the Stakes -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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