César Albarrán-Torres

Digital Gambling

Theorizing Gamble-Play Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781138303850
• ISBN-10: 1138303852
• Artikelnr.: 52399109

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