Digital Gambling - Theorizing Gamble-Play Media

Zusatztext "I am thrilled to recommend a book that is essential reading for students and scholars working across gambling and gaming studies. At last, we have a rigorous, creative and thought-provoking study to help us make sense of proliferating platforms and products that are blurring the lines between entertainment and investment in everyday life. Albarrán-Torres’ concept of ‘digital gamble-play’ is quite literally a game-changer." -- Fiona Nicoll , Research Chair in Gambling Policy with the Alberta Gambling Research Institute and the Department of Political Science at University of Alberta, Canada   Informationen zum Autor César Albarrán-Torres is Lecturer in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Klappentext This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Zusammenfassung This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The VIP Lounge Introduction. Digital gambling as media Part I. Gamble-play theory 1. Towards a theory of gamble-play 2. Smoke and mirrors: procedural rhetoric in gamble-play 3. Gamble-play media and practices of consumption Part II. Gamble-play platforms 4. Gamble-play and popular culture: when slots meet Hollywood 5. Gamble-play as Second Life : the case of PKR 6. 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

Product details

• Authors: Cesar (Swinburne University of Te Albarran-Torres, César Albarrán-Torres
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138303850
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30385-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Gambling: theories & methods, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Gambling / General, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Gambling: theories and methods