César Albarrán-Torres

Digital Gambling (eBook, PDF)

Theorizing Gamble-Play Media

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 structure users' experiences. By studying digital gambling from media studies, videogame and cultural studies approaches, this book offers a new critical perspective on the issues raised by computer-mediated gambling, while expanding our perspective on what media and gambling are. In particular, it critically analyses terrestrial, mobile and online slot machines, online poker and stock trading apps through a selection of case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351398220
• Artikelnr.: 53315953

Autorenporträt

César Albarrán-Torres is Lecturer in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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