TY - JOUR
T1 - Risky business: a few provocations on the regulation of electronic gaming machines
AU - Livingstone, Charles Henry
AU - Woolley, Richard
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) proliferate in Australian club and hotel venues, generating revenues of billions of dollars annually and accounting for the majority of gambling expenditure. These revenues arguably rely on unsafe consumption practices, generating considerable harm. Clear evidence is available describing unsafe levels of EGM consumption by regular EGM consumers in hotels and clubs, and indicating modifications to EGM technology and systems to minimize harm. However, a comfortable orthodoxy, the discourse of business as usual , perpetuates current arrangements, sustaining in particular a model of the problem gambler as an individualized flawed consumer. The article argues that the marketing and distribution of EGMs is neither accidental nor something for which the individual is responsible, and neither is the safeguarding of oneself from the harm produced by goods licensed by government. Pursuit of a goal of safe consumption for all EGM gamblers requires disruption of the discourse of business as usual.
AB - Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) proliferate in Australian club and hotel venues, generating revenues of billions of dollars annually and accounting for the majority of gambling expenditure. These revenues arguably rely on unsafe consumption practices, generating considerable harm. Clear evidence is available describing unsafe levels of EGM consumption by regular EGM consumers in hotels and clubs, and indicating modifications to EGM technology and systems to minimize harm. However, a comfortable orthodoxy, the discourse of business as usual , perpetuates current arrangements, sustaining in particular a model of the problem gambler as an individualized flawed consumer. The article argues that the marketing and distribution of EGMs is neither accidental nor something for which the individual is responsible, and neither is the safeguarding of oneself from the harm produced by goods licensed by government. Pursuit of a goal of safe consumption for all EGM gamblers requires disruption of the discourse of business as usual.
UR - http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783009322~db=all~order=page
M3 - Article
SN - 1445-9795
VL - 7
SP - 361
EP - 376
JO - International Gambling Studies
JF - International Gambling Studies
IS - 3
ER -