COMPUTER GAMES AS A SUBJECT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

The article is devoted to the specifics of the study of computer games. The authors propose to analyzethe phenomenon of computer games in three dimensions: philosophical and cultural, socio-economic andpsychological and pedagogical. The research methodology consists of general scientific methods of systemanalysis and an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of study. As a result, the authors conclude that thereis a need for an integrated approach to the study of computer games and the impossibility of studying one ofthe aspects of computer games in isolation from the other. The experience of interdisciplinary research makesit possible to prevent a one-sided view of computer games and to consider the game as a key accompliceof progress that has led to the development of digital culture, new forms of cognition, means and scales ofcommunication, ways of monetization, new methods of psychological relief.