Digital gambling : the coincidence of desire and design
By: SCHULL, Natasha Dow
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2005The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 597, p. 65-81Abstract: Drawing on etnographic research conducted in Las Vegas among game developers and machine gamblers, I correlate a set of digitally enhanced game features with phenomenological aspects of gamblers' experience, demonstrating the intimate connection between extreme states of subjective absorption in play and design elements that manipulate space and time to accelerate the extraction of money from players. The case of the digital gambling interface exemplifies the tendency of modern into intensified relation and sheds light on the question of what might or might not be distictive about the rationalities and libidinal investiments of the "digital age"
Drawing on etnographic research conducted in Las Vegas among game developers and machine gamblers, I correlate a set of digitally enhanced game features with phenomenological aspects of gamblers' experience, demonstrating the intimate connection between extreme states of subjective absorption in play and design elements that manipulate space and time to accelerate the extraction of money from players. The case of the digital gambling interface exemplifies the tendency of modern into intensified relation and sheds light on the question of what might or might not be distictive about the rationalities and libidinal investiments of the "digital age"
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