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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. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. '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 'machine zone', in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schull describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casi

Who reads Addiction by Design : Machine Gambling in Las Vegas?

Author

Schüll, Natasha Dow; Schull, Natasha Dow;

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400834655

Category

science

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

4.01 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13