Digital gambling : theorizing gamble-play media / César Albarrán-Torres.
"This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Digital gambling brings gambling closer to the practices and features of videogames, as audio-visual simulations structur...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ;
42. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : digital gambling as media
- Gamble-play theory
- Towards a theory of gamble-play
- Smoke and mirrors : procedural rhetoric in gamble-play
- Gamble-play media and practices of consumption
- Gamble-play platforms. Gamble-play and popular culture : when slots meet Hollywood
- Gamble-play as Second life : the case of PKR
- Mobile gamble-play apps : a casino in your pocket
- Gambling with markets : stock trading apps and the logic of gamble-play
- Postface: gamble-play in the societies of control.