Qualitative research in gambling : exploring the production and consumption of risk / / edited by Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac and Claire Loussouarn
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| Autore: |
Cassidy Rebecca
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| Titolo: |
Qualitative research in gambling : exploring the production and consumption of risk / / edited by Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac and Claire Loussouarn
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| Pubblicazione: | Taylor & Francis, 2013 |
| Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 795.0721 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gambling - Research |
| Gambling industry | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | gambling research |
| gambling | |
| contemporary social science | |
| Bookmaker | |
| Online gambling | |
| Slot machine | |
| Spread betting | |
| Altri autori: |
CassidyRebecca
LoussouarnClaire
PisacAndrea
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Between methods -- pt. 2. Border crossings -- pt. 3. Between worlds -- pt. 4. Between investment and gambling. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of ‘problem gambling’ in order to follow those changes across territorial, political, technical, regulatory and conceptual boundaries. The book draws on cutting-edge qualitative work in disciplines including geography, organisational studies, sociology, East Asian studies and anthropology to explore the production and consumption of risk, risky places, risk technologies, the gambling industry and connections between gambling and other kinds of speculation such as financial derivatives. In doing so it addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary social science, including: the challenges of studying deterritorialised social phenomena; globalising technologies and local markets; regulation as it operates across local, regional and international scales; and the rise of games, virtual worlds and social media. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Qualitative research in gambling |
| ISBN: | 1-134-44592-X |
| 1-138-92455-5 | |
| 0-203-71887-9 | |
| 1-134-44585-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910139035603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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