 How should we regulate gambling at a time when it is possible to bet on any sporting event in the world using just a handheld device and an Internet connection? How should we monitor this profitable economic sector now that customers, operators, and regulators think and act globally rather than nationally? In this video of her lecture at the 2011 Falling Walls Conference, anthropologist Rebecca Cassidy discusses her ambitious project GAMSOC, which is financed by the European Research Council and aimed at proposing a new perspective to the European legislator on gambling. With the ultimate goal of assisting governments, operators, and regulators in limiting the harms associated with gambling, GAMSOC conducts anthropologically, ethnographically, and technologically framed research on this globally diffused practice, still characterized by strong cultural and historical specificities. Cassidy explores the challenges of and potential solutions to gambling regulation across national, economic, and conceptual boundaries. (13 minutes)
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