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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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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