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dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorPisac, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorLoussouarn, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-08 14:30:37
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:10:23Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:10:23Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier610650
dc.identifierOCN: 863822431en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32438
dc.description.abstractGambling 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WD Hobbies, quizzes and games::WDP Gambling: theories and methodsen_US
dc.subject.othergambling research
dc.subject.othergambling
dc.subject.othercontemporary social science
dc.subject.otherBookmaker
dc.subject.otherOnline gambling
dc.subject.otherSlot machine
dc.subject.otherSpread betting
dc.titleQualitative Research in Gambling
dc.title.alternativeExploring the production and consumption of risk
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_610650
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isFundedBy7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79
oapen.relation.isbn9780415659383
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages276
oapen.grant.number263443
oapen.grant.acronymGAMSOC
oapen.grant.programFP7
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Bookmaker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmaker; Gambling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling; Online gambling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling; Slot machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine; Social-network game - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-network_game; Spread betting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_betting


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