Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas

Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas / Natasha Dow Schüll.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schüll, Natasha Dow, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Subjects:	Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas. Compulsive gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas. Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas > Equipment and supplies. Casinos > Nevada > Las Vegas.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: mapping the machine zone
Interior design for interior states: architecture, ambience, and affect
Engineering experience: the productive economy of player-centric design
Programming chances: the calculation of enchantment
Matching the market: innovation, intensification, habituation
Live data: tracking players, guiding play
Perfect contingency: from control to compulsion
Gambled away: liquidating life
Overdrive: chasing loss, playing to extinction
Balancing acts: the double bind of therapeutics
Fix upon fix: recipes for regulating risk
Conclusion: raising the stakes.