Games e a indústria cultural: o impacto sociocultural dos jogos eletrônicos

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the expansion of the electronic games industry, seeking to understand its impacts, especially regarding its cultural dimension, and the social interaction between its users. By making a historical construction relating the theme to the concept of cultural industry created by Adorno and Horkheimer, the theory will be worked on as an action in the formation of mentalities, where, on the one hand, it can be responsible for removing the transforming role from art, but which can be the only one capable of disseminating and re-signifying it as a factor of social transformation. It will also be analyzed, based on the dimension of the phenomenon of games, the idea of how the culture of games is incorporated into the entertainment industry (e-games), and how it ends up influencing the dynamics of routine, related to work and the way of an individual's life.