Honorable mention, Gregory Bateson Prize, Society for Cultural AnthropologyĪrchitetture dell’azzardo: Progettare il gioco, costruire la dipendenza. Winner, Sharon Stephens Prize, American Ethnological Association Princeton University Press, September 2012 At stake in Schüll’s account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.ĪDDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Addiction by Design takes readers from industry conventions and casino floors into gamblers’ everyday lives, from the strategic planning of game algorithms to Gamblers Anonymous meetings and regulatory debates over whether addiction to slot machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the dark side of machine gambling-a solitary, rapid, continuous form of play that has less to do with the competitive thrill of winning than with the pull of “the machine zone,” as gamblers call the trancelike state they enter. Slot machines, revamped by evermore compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay.
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