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The Resistances to Video games

A Conversation between Miglena Nikolchina and Enyo Stoyanov

Author(s): Miglena Nikolchina, Enyo Stoyanov
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Language studies, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Foreign languages learning, Psychology, Music, Photography, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Library and Information Science, Visual Arts, Information Architecture, Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Education and training, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Social Philosophy, Communication studies, Sociology, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Political history, Social history, Gender history, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Societal Essay, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Philology, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: video games; resistances; medicalization; violence; Bulgarian cultural context;

Summary/Abstract: The text presents a discussion on the variety of concerns that are accompanying the continuous rise in popularity of video games today. The discussion focuses on the "medicalization" of the so-called video game addiction, the question oThe text presents a discussion on the variety of concerns that are accompanying the continuous rise in popularity of video games today. The discussion focuses on the "medicalization" of the so-called video game addiction, the question of the reasons for the overexposure of violence in this novel cultural form, the dangers, inherent in some of the business practices, espoused in this largely unregulated industry, as well as the conditions for the reception of its products in Bulgaria.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 12-36
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Bulgarian