Gambling as social practice: a complementary approach for reducing harm?
Gambling as social practice: a complementary approach for reducing harm?
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DOI：
10.1186/s12954-019-0342-2
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发表时间：
2019-12-05
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Reith, Gerda
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作者：
Gordon, Ross;Reith, Gerda
背景：赌博现在是一个公认的公共卫生问题，并形成了广泛的减少伤害倡议的重点。政策、实践和技术的最新发展，如法规的放松、全球赌博公司影响力的增加，以及移动的手机应用程序和固定赔率投注终端（FOBT）等设备的发展，意味着前景是复杂的、动态的和快速变化的。赌博现在使用新技术，在各种空间和场所，以及各种社会环境中进行。因此，需要进行研究，以告知可以应对这一复杂领域的适当赌博危害减少策略。然而，减少赌博危害的研究和政策方法主要是通过个人行为，成瘾和“理性”行动的心理和经济模型来制定的。随着越来越多的赌博研究社会文化方法的出现，这种情况正在开始发生变化。方法：在本文中，我们讨论了将赌博视为一种社会实践的情况，其表现依赖于多种元素，例如技术和材料、空间和地点、语言和话语以及结构和机构。我们呼吁赌博研究的实践理论方法，结合努力超越个人赌徒及其行为，也承认塑造赌博行为的多种因素的相互作用。为了实现这一目标，我们建议，研究方法，如视觉ethnography可以是helpful.Conclusion：我们阐述了如何社会实践的角度来看赌博研究可以产生不同的见解，并帮助通知更细致入微和适当的赌博危害减少举措。
Background: Gambling is now a well-recognised public health issue and forms the focus of extensive harm reduction initiatives. Recent developments in policy, practice and technology, such relaxation of regulations, the increasing influence of global gambling corporations, and the development of devices such as mobile phone apps and fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) mean that the landscape is a complex, dynamic, and fast moving one. Gambling is now practiced using new technologies, in various spaces and places, and features in a range of social surroundings. Therefore, research is needed to inform appropriate gambling harm reduction strategies that can respond to this complex domain. Yet, research and policy approaches to the reduction of gambling harm are predominantly framed through psychological and economic models of individual behaviour, addiction, and 'rational' action. This is beginning to change, with a growing corpus of socio-cultural approaches to gambling research now emerging.Method: In this article, we argue the case of recognising gambling as a social practice, the performance of which draws upon multiple elements such as technology and materials, spaces and places, language and discourse, and structures and agency. We call for a practice theory approach to gambling research that joins efforts to move beyond individual gamblers and their behaviour, to also acknowledge the interaction of multiple elements shaping gambling practices. To achieve this, we suggest that research methods such as visual ethnography can be helpful.Conclusion: We set out how a social practice perspective to gambling research can generate different insights and help inform more nuanced and appropriate gambling harm reduction initiatives.