Qualitative research in gambling: exploring the production and consumption of risk

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 inno...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2014
Series:Open Access e-Books
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Summary: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, technica
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:0203718879
1134445857
1306111994
9780203718872
9781134445851
9781306111997
Access:Open Access