Games without frontiers? : socio-historical perspectives at the gaming/gambling intersection / Heather Wardle.
2021
GN454.6 .W37 2021
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Title
Games without frontiers? : socio-historical perspectives at the gaming/gambling intersection / Heather Wardle.
ISBN
9783030749101 (electronic bk.)
303074910X (electronic bk.)
9783030749095
3030749096
303074910X (electronic bk.)
9783030749095
3030749096
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-74910-1 doi
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GN454.6 .W37 2021
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306.4/82
Summary
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks "does this matter?" Looking at how "loot boxes" became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the 20th century but also incorporates more recent trends like the poker boom of the 1990s, the development of social media gambling products and the development of skin betting markets. Underpinned by changing technology, which facilitated new ways to bet, trade and play, the intersection between gaming and gambling cultures and products has accelerated within the last decade and shows little signs of stopping. Wardle explores what this means for our understanding of risk, how gaming and gambling entities use each other for commercial advantage, and crucially explores what young people think of this, before making recommendations for action. Heather Wardle is Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Reader in Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, specialising in gambling research, policy and practice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Leisure studies in a global era.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Gambling Permeation? Cultural, Social and Economic Intersections Between Games and Gambling
Chapter 3. When Games and Gambling Collide: Modern Examples and Controversies
Chapter 4. Challenging "Play"
Chapter 5. Concluding Remarks.
Chapter 2. The Gambling Permeation? Cultural, Social and Economic Intersections Between Games and Gambling
Chapter 3. When Games and Gambling Collide: Modern Examples and Controversies
Chapter 4. Challenging "Play"
Chapter 5. Concluding Remarks.