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Imitation Games: How Gambling Hijacked Sport - Softcover

McGee, Darragh

 
9781847929310: Imitation Games: How Gambling Hijacked Sport
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847929311 ISBN 13: 9781847929310
Verlag: Bodley Head, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

'Meticulous and devastating... Read this book to learn the truth about the game you love'
Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland

A cheeky flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A friendly, familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved. What harm could it do…

It has never been easier to stake a bet. Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event – the mobile slot machine in your pocket all you need to enter an immersive world in which gambling is faceless and frictionless, available 24/7, on almost any aspect of any sport.

Since its origins as a provincial cottage industry almost twenty-five years ago, online gambling has become a globe-straddling behemoth worth more than £10 billion a year. It can sometimes feel as if the point of sport is to bet on it.

How did we get here? How did a new wave of gambling brands hijack sport on a global scale? In Imitation Games, Darragh McGee travels the world to tell the incredible story of the digital brands who unleashed this new world of gambling onto a new generation of fans (and got very rich doing so).

At the same time, he traces the harm and human cost that gambling leaves behind, and shows how we can create a different future for sport and society. Because when the fun stops, it stops hard.

'McGee takes readers on a gripping journey'
Natasha Schüll, author of Addiction by Design

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Darragh McGee is an academic based at the University of Bath and an authority on the changing relationship between gambling and sport. He has led a decade of cutting-edge research on the growth of online sports gambling in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa, including the public health impacts on a new generation of young people. His research and writing appear in global media outlets, including the Guardian, the BBC, and Men’s Health. He holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto, Canada. He was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2020. Imitation Games is his first book.

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Verlag
Bodley Head
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847929311
ISBN 13 
9781847929310
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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