A thematic analysis identifying concepts of problem gambling agency: With preliminary exploration of discourses in selected industry and research documents

Journal of gambling issues

Jennifer Borrell¹ 

关键词: harm production;   

DOI  :  10.4309/jgi.2008.22.4

学科分类：内科医学

来源: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (C A M H)

【 摘 要 】

Abstract The focus of this exploratory analysis was the idea and locus of agency in conceptualisations of gambling and problem/pathological gambling within corporate and academic domains as presented in public discourses. In order to unpick and analyse how such agency is being conceptualised and presented, the author carried out a preliminary thematic analysis of selected public documents. While annual financial reports, academic articles, and public testimony constituted the sample for analysis, the intention was to propose a methodology and framework of analysis that might be applied by future researchers to an expanded selection of documents deemed to be of interest. A notable overlap of themes was found wherein agency for (problematic) gambling was placed with individual gamblers against an assumed neutral backdrop of free-market forces, with industries only agentic in responding to the consumption demands of freely choosing (and implicitly self-actualising) individuals (except where credit is taken f...

【 授权许可】

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