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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schüll, Natasha Dow, 1971-
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Compulsive gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Gambling > Nevada > Las Vegas > Equipment and supplies.
Casinos > Nevada > Las Vegas.
Physical Description:xi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Machine gambling in Las Vegas.
Format: Book
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.