Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played
around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot …

This study integrated flow into a technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore whether
flow plays a mediating role in the TAM. An online questionnaire was used to collect data …

Sexual sessions between men, organised through mobile technologies and combined with
stimulants intended to extend and intensify the session have been reified into the …

Working life in public sector professions is undergoing significant change and becoming
increasingly demanding. This article explores work intensity in NHS ambulance services in …

This book gives a comprehensive yet easily accessible introduction to risk and uncertainty
as they have been analysed in sociology and related social sciences. The book draws …

Exploring Lyng's notion of “edgework,” this article draws on ethnographic data to explore the
ways skydivers create and sustain the belief that they can maintain control while working the …

We introduce the concept of the epistemic consumption object. Such consumption objects
are characterized by two interrelated features. First, epistemic consumption objects reveal …

Ritzer suggests that we are witnessing the emergence of a prosumer society where early
forms of prosumption (the gas station, the automatic teller machine, McDonalds, etc.) are …

Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation
and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the …

New media have markedly enhanced individuals' capacity to produce and disseminate
original knowledge; however, the literature has not extensively examined the broad effects …