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Introduction mapping the machine zone on a weekday evening in the fall of 1999, mollie and i sit at the fl oor length windows of a room high in the south tower of the main street station hotel and casino in downtown las vegas. Why we expect more from technology and less from each othera fascinating, frightening window into the world of. Natasha dow schull author of addiction by design and associate professor at mit. As schull explains, todays machines are much different from ones of the past. Habit summit addiction by design natasha dow schull. Addiction by design machine gambling in las vegas natasha dow schull author. It offers an analysis of machine gambling and the intensified forms of consumption that computerbased technologies enable and the innovations that deliberately enhance and sustain the zone which extreme machine. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic work, addiction by design is an ambitious and thoughtprovoking book that challenges the neoliberal ethos currently governing the ways in which governments and professionals think about gambling addiction. Blinking brightly below us is a four block stretch of fremont street, the citys former central artery of casino life.
Alexis madrigal, the atlantic natasha schulls addiction. This ethos frames gamblers as consumers who can choose to gamble responsibly with the help of experts and. Very little jargon clouds schull s prose, a rare thing in academic writing. 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. I think any good addiction researcher would recognize that addiction is in a large part a question of the timing of rewards or reinforcements, or the socalled event frequency. Natasha shows how the gambling ecosystem is designed to create and develop the addiction. The book is concerned with the coproduction of gambling. The book offers a most compelling and vivid picture of this world. My prizewinning 2012 book, addiction by design, details the various ways in which contemporary. Save up to 80% by choosing the etextbook option for isbn. Schulls work will have wide relevance to many audiences, including those interested in technology studies, media studies, software studies, game studies, valuesindesign, and the psychology and sociology of addiction and other technologically mediated behavioral disorders. Natasha dow schull is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of media, culture, and communication at new york university.
Drawing on fifteen years of field research in las vegas, anthropologist natasha dow schull shows how the mechanical rhythm of. Addiction as art, ian leslie, the news statesman, 2014 pdf. Requirments, method of evaluation, and assingments see below working schedule. Article pdf available in technology and culture 551. Choice if books can be tools, addiction by design is one of the foundational artifacts for understanding the digital agea lever, perhaps, to pry ourselves from the grasp of the coercive loops that now surround us. The annals of the american academy of political and social science 2016 597. Not because i was ever captivated by slot machines or video poker. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in las vegas, anthropologist natasha dow schull shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic.
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