Addiction by Design

{{Short description|2014 Non-fiction book about gambling}}

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| author = Natasha Dow Schüll

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| subject = Addiction

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| publisher = Princeton University Press

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| pub_date = May 11, 2014

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Addiction by Design is a 2014 non-fiction book by Natasha Dow Schüll and published by Princeton University Press{{cite web |title=Addiction By Design |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160887/addiction-by-design |website=Princeton University Press |date=11 May 2014 |access-date=9 April 2022}} that describes machine gambling in Las Vegas.{{Cite book|title =Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas|publisher = Princeton University Press|date = 2014|isbn = 978-0691160887|language = English|first = Natasha Dow|last = Schüll}} 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.{{cite web|title=A Nation of the Walking Dead|url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-nation-of-the-walking-dead/|author=Chris Hedges|author-link=Chris Hedges|date=2017-04-02|publisher=Truthdig}}{{Cite web|url=https://socialmediacollective.org/2012/09/06/addiction-by-design-review/|title=Can objects be evil? A review of 'Addiction by Design'|first=Laura|last=Noren|date=September 6, 2012}}{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.40.4.551|title=Review: [Untitled] |author=Cosgrave, Jim|year=2015|journal=The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie|volume=40|issue=4|pages=551–554|jstor=canajsocicahican.40.4.551}}

The book received attention in connection with how current information technologies, in certain contexts, can make people addicted.{{cite news|title=Can't Put Down Your Device? That's by Design|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/technology/personaltech/cant-put-down-your-device-thats-by-design.html?_r=0|author=Natasha Singer|work=The New York Times| date=5 December 2015 |accessdate=24 March 2017}}