Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

The article is part of a new trend of interdisciplinary research on the sporting nature of the organized competitive playing of video games. Methodological dysfunctionalism is a recently formulated analytical perspective that facilitates the social assessment of a given activity in terms of its sporting status. The researcher, starting from a specific definition of sport, focuses on five basic dysfunctions that contradict sports values, which are indicators of the collective definition of a given activity as sports: doping, corruption, politicization, commercialization and mediatization. The article confronts the concept of methodological dysfunctionalism with one of the newest and fastest growing phenomena of postmodern culture – electronic sport.