Author: Beckett Media
Publisher: Beckett Media
ISBN: 9781936681587
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gaming Almanac #13
Author: Beckett Media
Publisher: Beckett Media
ISBN: 9781936681587
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Beckett Media
ISBN: 9781936681587
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beckett Gaming Almanac #11
Author: Beckett Media
Publisher: Beckett Media
ISBN: 9781936681464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Beckett Media
ISBN: 9781936681464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Casino City's Global Gaming Almanac
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Category : Casinos
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Casinos
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Bear Sterns North American Gaming Almanac
Author: Jason N Ader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929712512
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929712512
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Video Game Almanac
Author: Mark H. Walker
Publisher: Mars Publishing (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"450+ reviews of computer and video games"--Cover.
Publisher: Mars Publishing (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
"450+ reviews of computer and video games"--Cover.
Addiction by Design
Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691160880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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 Schüll 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. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. 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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691160880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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 Schüll 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. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. 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.
Global Gaming Almanac
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Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ...
Author: George Edward Plumbe
Publisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Companion to the Almanac, Or Yearbook of General Information for ....
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Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Plunkett's Entertainment and Media Industry Almanac 2008
Author: Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN: 1593921039
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
A market research guide to the entertainment and media industry. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It also includes one page profiles of entertainment and media industry firms, including addresses, phone numbers, executive names.
Publisher: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
ISBN: 1593921039
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
A market research guide to the entertainment and media industry. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It also includes one page profiles of entertainment and media industry firms, including addresses, phone numbers, executive names.