Qualitative Research in Gambling: Exploring the production and consumption of risk, edited by Rebecca Cassidy, Andrea Pisac, & Claire Loussouam, is is their multi-disciplinary academic anthology with an anthropological focus on the subject of Exactly What It Says In The Title, with contributed essays on how gamblers and the institutions enabling them work, in both historical and modern times, free courtesy of publisher Taylor & Francis's dedicated academic/educational Routledge.
This is one of Routledge's series of Open Access titles offered under a Creative Commons license, which you can see a list of on their dedicated webpage, and which are often matched in the usual stores. From the essay titles, it actually looks pretty nifty, with several pieces focusing on different international means of and venues for gambling.
Currently free @ B&N, Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK), Kobo & iTunes & Google Play & eBooks.com (all available to Canadians), and also directly from the publisher's website (DRM-free PDF available worldwide).
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because quasi-academic non-fiction freebies are always welcome, and it's nice that Routledge has added another title to their Open Access catalogue. :scholar: :2thumbsup
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Description
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.
This is one of Routledge's series of Open Access titles offered under a Creative Commons license, which you can see a list of on their dedicated webpage, and which are often matched in the usual stores. From the essay titles, it actually looks pretty nifty, with several pieces focusing on different international means of and venues for gambling.
Currently free @ B&N, Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK), Kobo & iTunes & Google Play & eBooks.com (all available to Canadians), and also directly from the publisher's website (DRM-free PDF available worldwide).
And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because quasi-academic non-fiction freebies are always welcome, and it's nice that Routledge has added another title to their Open Access catalogue. :scholar: :2thumbsup
Enjoy!
Description
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.
