# Addiction by Design

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***Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas*** is a 2012 non-fiction book by Natasha Dow Schüll and published by [Princeton University Press](/source/Princeton_University_Press)[1] that describes machine gambling in Las Vegas.[2] It offers an analysis of machine gambling and the intensified forms of consumption that computer-based technologies enable and the innovations that deliberately enhance and sustain the 'zone' which extreme machine gamblers yearn for.[3][4][5]

The book received attention in connection with how current information technologies, in certain contexts, can make people addicted.[3][6]

## See also

- [Addiction psychology](/source/Addiction_psychology)
- [Slot machine](/source/Slot_machine)
- [Compulsion loop](/source/Compulsion_loop)

## References

1. ["Addiction By Design"](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160887/addiction-by-design). *Princeton University Press*. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

1. Schüll, Natasha Dow (2014). *Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas*. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691160887.

1. Chris Hedges (2017-04-02). ["A Nation of the Walking Dead"](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-nation-of-the-walking-dead/). [Truthdig](/source/Truthdig)

1. Noren, Laura (September 6, 2012). ["Can objects be evil? A review of 'Addiction by Design'"](https://socialmediacollective.org/2012/09/06/addiction-by-design-review/)

1. Cosgrave, Jim (2015). ["Review: \[Untitled\]"](http://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.40.4.551). *The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie*. **40** (4): 551–554. [JSTOR canajsocicahican.40.4.551](https://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.40.4.551)

1. Natasha Singer (5 December 2015). ["Can't Put Down Your Device? That's by Design"](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/technology/personaltech/cant-put-down-your-device-thats-by-design.html?_r=0). *The New York Times*. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

## External links

- [Chris Hedges](/source/Chris_Hedges) and Professor Natasha Dow Schüll [discuss](https://web.archive.org/web/20170328164900/http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/how_gambling_become_americas_premier_entertainment_escape_20170328) the research reported in her book (2017-03-28). Video, 26 min

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