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gbby [Visitor] in response to: Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people

gbby [Visitor] — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:20:00 +0000

Larry,
Before you make an idiotic comment, you should do a little inquiry into the nature of her research. If it's so easy, why don't you get a PhD - like she did - and make a "damn good living" as well...

Larry [Visitor] in response to: Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people

Larry [Visitor] — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:50:26 +0000

Does it really take an advanced degree to determine that slot machines are a Lousy bet? Natasha is doing what she claims is wrong. Specifically, she is making a damn good living off of Slot machines. She should be ashamed!

thinking difference [Visitor] in response to: Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people

thinking difference [Visitor] — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:18:14 +0000

Very interesting approach. I have no doubt that values and purposes are embedded in technology from inception and design, to production and ultimately use. But I wonder how an engineer would dismiss such claims arguing this is a problem of use (how people make use of the slot machines) and not of design. Social shaping of technology is a particularly suitable theoretical framework for this type of work.

Alanna [Visitor] in response to: Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people

Alanna [Visitor] — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:46:08 +0000

Shifting the paradigm from people with problems to machines designed to be predatory is an amazing change in perspective. I am so glad her work is getting attention.