Addiction by Design
Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Recommended by Stephen Mayne, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #48 in Gambling
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.
Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schull shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the... more
Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schull shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the... more
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Stephen Mayne Here is the great @CLjeSuppose in Natasha Schull’s 2012 book, “Addiction by Design”, describing how machine gamblers in the zone suspend clock time. https://t.co/mAg0ERJY2t (Source)
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