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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. "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 m...

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    robot18 октября 2015 г.

    “Modern individuals are not merely ‘free to choose,’” Rose elaborates, following his colleague Anthony Giddens, “but obliged to be free, to understand and enact their lives in terms of choice.” As the psychologist Barry Schwartz points out, the pressure to sift through an “oppressive abundance” of choice can tyrannize and debilitate, increasing the potential for disappointment, regret, and guilt, and leaving individuals “feeling barely able to manage” their lives.

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    robot18 октября 2015 г.

    Bill Friedman and other experience-attentive casino designers advocate “a constant adjustment of the building,” as one put it, resulting in the production of “ergonomic labyrinths” that facilitate “happy imprisonment.”

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