Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and Design
Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and Design
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数字赌博：欲望与设计的巧合
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10.1177/0002716204270435
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
Natasha Dow Schull
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作者：
Natasha Dow Schull
借鉴在拉斯维加斯的游戏开发者和机器赌徒中进行的人种学研究，我将一组数字增强的游戏功能与赌徒体验的现象学方面相关联，展示了游戏中主观吸收的极端状态与操纵空间和时间以加速从玩家身上榨取金钱的设计元素之间的密切联系。数字赌博界面的案例证实了现代资本主义将空间、时间和金钱纳入强化关系的趋势，并揭示了“数字时代”的理性和力比多投资可能具有或不具有独特性的问题。
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Las Vegas among game developers and machine gamblers, I correlate a set of digitally enhanced game features with phenomenological aspects of gamblers’ experience, demonstrating the intimate connection between extreme states of subjective absorption in play and design elements that manipulate space and time to accelerate the extraction of money from players. The case of the digital gambling interface exemplifies the tendency of modern capitalism to bring space, time, and money into intensified relation and sheds light on the question of what might or might not be distinctive about the rationalities and libidinal investments of the “digital age.”