Christina Ambareva - Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Hristina Ambareva works in the fields of social theory and cultural studies. She earned her PhD in Philosophy in 2003 at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation entitled “(Non-)Discursive Aesthetics: An Aesthetic Reading of Philosophy for All and No One.” She specialized in the field of the Japanese cultural industry at the Department of Sociology, Kyoto University (2008–2010). She has participated in numerous national and international research projects. In 2019, she published the monograph Internet Culture and How It Changes the World, which analyzes the cultural and value dimensions of digitalization, as well as the impact of digital technologies on forms of political action and social mobilization. From 2021 to 2023, she led a collaborative research project in the field of education and digitalization.

scientific interests:
Political philosophy and social theory, with a focus on modernity and modernisation; Digital culture and technology as transformative forces shaping knowledge and social relations; Classical Aesthetics and contemporary theories of art (modernity and media)

Selected publications:

Monograph
Ambareva, C. (2019). Internet Culture and How It Changes the World. Sofia: Avangard Prima. https://www.academia.edu/39560043/Ambareva_2019_Internet_Culture

Peer-reviewed articles:
Ambareva, C. (2023). Artificial Intelligence: Three Philosophical Interpretations of the Anthropocentric Frame of Reference. In: Creativity after automation. Balkan Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2023, p. 77 – 84. Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House, Sofia

Ambareva, H. (2023). Covid-19 and the Shift Towards a New Concept of Education. In: Perspectives towards education for the 21st century. Philosophy-Filosofia Journal, XXXII, Vol. 3s-thematic edition, ISSN 0861-6302, p. 22-35 (студия). Sofia: Az-Buki. URL: https://philosophy.azbuki.bg

Ambareva, C. (2021). On the Synergy Between the Extension Theory of Technology and the Literacy Doctrine. Nota Bene. In: “Pandemics, Knowledge and Education”, Vol. 53, URL: https://www.notabene-bg.org/read.php?id=1143.%20ISSN:1313-7859

Ambareva, C. (2017). Protests, Internet and Cultural Change in Bulgaria. Annals of the University of Bucharest, Philosophy Seriesq Vol.LXV, no 2, 2016, pp. 25-35.

Book-review
Ambareva, H. (2024). The power of algorithms and the rise of experience economy: “the digital mind. semiotic studies of digital culture”: by Kristian K. Bankov. Social Semiotics, March, Springer, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2024.2314466, 1-3.

projects:

2021-2023: Rethinking Bulgarian Education for 21st century. Collective project of the Department of Social Theories, Strategies and Prognosis. Financed by BAS.” Project leader: H.Ambareva

2015-2017: Collective research project „България в Европейския съюз – изводи, конфликти, рискове и перспективи.” Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Borislav Gradinarov. Financed by BAS.

2015-2017. Collective research project title: „Culture and Values in Late Modernity “. Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Bogdana Todorova. Partners: ISSK-BAS and Institute for Philosophy at the Romanian Academy of Sciences.

2013-2014. “Church and Culture in Romanian and Bulgarian history and nowadays. The future of religion on the Balkans.” Project leader: Associate prof. Bogdana Todorova, PhD, Institute for Research of Societies and Knowledge. Partners: Romanian Academy of Sciences and Bucharest Institute of Philosophy.

2013-2014 Research project: „New forms of inequality and transformations of power mechanisms “. Project leader prof. Ivan Katsarski. Financed by ISSK-BAS.

external link:
https://issk-bas.academia.edu/HristinaAmbareva