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    No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture
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    No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture

    By Nathan Charles

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    When you think of ‘gambling’ you might think of Vegas casinos, betting shops and football flutters but the risk of gambling is embedded in numerous corners of popular culture that many of us consume.

    By considering the concept of ‘soft gambling’, No Dice asks how we could possibly link the Pokémon Trading Card Game with gambling. Can we compare Netflix to a night at the theatre? When does fictional gambling within video games go too far with their infamous loot boxes? Does such risk affect everyone or are socio-economic divides driving further inequality?

    No Dice explores the messy world of gambling and risk that we encounter regularly, from childhood through adulthood, considering if it is worth the risk and if we even know what risks we might be taking.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher404 Ink
    Release dateOct 29, 2022
    ISBN9781912489671
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    No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture
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    Nathan Charles

    Nathan Charles is a working-class theatre maker, producer and director from Portsmouth. He is also Co-Artistic Director of Brightmouth Productions, Co-Editor of The Crumb and Co-Founder of devised comedy group Red Biscuit Theatre. Nathan focuses on work that challenges our existing relationship to pressing socio-economic issues.

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