The Online Poker Sub-Culture: Dialogues, Interactions and Networks

O’Leary, Killian; Carroll, Conor

doi:10.1007/s10899-012-9326-9

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“…This is so because subjective culture consists of the individual positioning, yet within the socially shared symbolic universe, revolving around a coherent set of values, norms, cognitive styles, ways of perceiving and acting. 6 The notion of subjective culture may recall that of subculture (Abt et al 1985;O'Leary and Carroll 2012), traditionally understood as a set of ways of understanding, behaviors, and artifacts used by particular groups. Nonetheless, we prefer the former term because subcultures have often been equated with an aggregate of persons, identified through demographic features (such as youth) or a collectivity, identified through a specific system of activity (such as a gang).…”

Section: The Psychological Interpretation Of Gamblingmentioning

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The Role of Cultural Factors in Differentiating Pathological Gamblers

2014

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It is recognised that cultural factors play a role in the onset and continuation of several mental health problems. However, there is a significant lack of empirical studies investigating the relationships between cultural factors and gambling behavior. This study assessed whether the subjective cultures through which subjects interpret and enact their experience of the social environment play a major role in increasing (or decreasing) the probability of pathological gambling. Participants, recruited in three different contexts (public health services for the treatment of addiction, casino, undergraduate course) were subjected to the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) (Lesieur and Blume in Am J Psychiatry 144(9):1184-1188, 1987), in order to identify a group of pathological gamblers-and with the Questionnaire on the Interpretation of the Social Environment (QUISE) (Mossi and Salvatore in Eur J Educ Psychol 4(2):153-169, 2011)-in order to detect their subjective cultures. The study compares pathological group (scoring >5 on SOGS, n = 34) and a healthy control group (scoring <1 on SOGS, n = 35). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare groups on QUISE scores of subjective culture. Moreover, a logistic regression was applied in order to esteem the capability of the QUISE scores to differentiate between pathological gamblers and control. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that pathological group expresses different subjective cultures compared with no gambler subjects. The theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed.

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Section: The Psychological Interpretation Of Gamblingmentioning

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The Role of Cultural Factors in Differentiating Pathological Gamblers

2014

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“…Since the emergence of the first online poker room, Planet Poker in 1998 (Philander & Abarbanel, ), online poker has evolved into a multibillion dollar industry, which in 2013 garnered an estimated €2.8 billion in gross profit (van Loon, van den Assem, & van Dolder, ). These numbers remain high despite a large drop in online poker players (mainly from the USA) due to new financial regulations (Lang, ; O'Leary & Carroll, ; van Loon et al, ). The largest internet poker operator PokerStars has purportedly registered over 100 million players since its inception in 2001 (PokerStars, ), although traffic to its website fell by 26 percent after the regulations established by the U.S. government (Stewart, ).…”

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“…To do this, the present work examines the effects of both positive and negative contact in an online poker context, a context previously ignored in research on intergroup contact. Previous research on online poker has mostly focused on problem gambling (e.g., Mitrovic & Brown, 2009), judgment and decision-making (Siler, 2010), gender and race representations in poker avatars and advertisements (Ingen, 2008), or the subculture that exists for online poker players (O'Leary & Carroll, 2013). However, no work to date has examined how online interactions between poker players from different national groups could have spill over effects on one's views about people from other nations.…”

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Effect of valenced vicarious online contact on out‐group prejudice and perceived out‐group variability: A study of online poker

Andrews

Yogeeswaran

Walker

et al. 2018

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Online poker has become a multibillion dollar industry, with millions of people from around the world both playing and watching online poker each year. Unlike live poker, players and watchers, typically cannot rely on physical cues of other players; in fact, the only information often available to poker players is others’ nationality. Because these poker games often involve members of different national groups, it constitutes a context of indirect contact that has considerable potential to examine how attitudes and beliefs about people from other nationalities can be influenced by interactions in online poker. In the current research, we examined how observing an in‐group player have positive or negative contact with a player of another nationality impacted one’s own attitudes and beliefs about the out‐group nation. Participants (N = 157) watched an online poker video recording of a fellow in‐group member have negative, positive, or no intergroup contact with an out‐group member at an online poker table. Subsequent affective (out‐group attitudes) and cognitive (perceived out‐group variability) measures of intergroup bias were taken. Data revealed that while observing negative contact increased out‐group prejudice, observing positive contact reduced prejudice (all relative to no intergroup contact). However, no differences were found in perceived out‐group variability. Implications for online poker and future research intergroup contact are discussed.

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“…Gambling promotion in social media is not spread solely by gambling operators. Users can easily generate and share comments, posts and links on gambling and network with other gamblers . All this can contribute to the normalisation of gambling behaviour among social media users.…”

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Young people and gambling content in social media: An experimental insight

Kaakinen

Sirola

Savolainen

et al. 2019

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Introduction and Aims. Online gambling advertising and user-generated gambling content have increased. This study used a social psychological online experiment to analyse young people's reactions towards and self-reported interests in social media gambling messages. Design and Methods. A vignette experiment with a two-level between-subjects factor (group condition or control condition) and three two-level within-subjects factors (expressed stance on gambling, narrative perspective and majority opinion) was conducted with two samples of young Finnish people aged 15 to 25 years (N = 1200, 50% female, mean age 21.29 years) and 15 to 30 years (N = 230, 53% female, mean age 24.35 years). Participants were asked to indicate how they would react to presented gambling messages (i.e. like or dislike the content) and how interesting would the content appear to them. In addition to experimental factors, the Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale and a global self-esteem measure were used as the independent variables. A statistical analysis included multilevel linear and logistic regressions. Results. Young people preferred anti-gambling messages instead of pro-gambling messages. This effect was moderated by personal gambling attitudes as participants with highly positive gambling attitudes preferred pro-gambling content. Fact-driven messages were favoured over experience-driven messages. Positive majority opinions predicted more favourable reactions and positive interest. Discussion and Conclusions. Young people prefer anti-gambling content and factual argumentation but their online behaviour is also influenced by perceived group norms. The potential risks of online gambling promotion mainly concern young people already interested in gambling. [Kaakinen M, Sirola A, Savolainen I, Oksanen A. Young people and gambling content in social media: An experimental insight. Drug Alcohol Rev 2020;39:152-161]

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The Online Poker Sub-Culture: Dialogues, Interactions and Networks

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

The Role of Cultural Factors in Differentiating Pathological Gamblers

The Role of Cultural Factors in Differentiating Pathological Gamblers

Effect of valenced vicarious online contact on out‐group prejudice and perceived out‐group variability: A study of online poker

Young people and gambling content in social media: An experimental insight

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