Information Society, 2014, Issue 1
Keywords and Abstracts
Global Information Society Summit + 10: the Point Is to Be Able to Understand Participants’ Interests
MINKIN Vladimir Markovich
The article discusses results of the preparatory meeting for the World High-Level Meeting on the Information Society. It demonstrates the role of ITU as the initiator facilitating such meetings, and mechanism of agreeing stakeholders’ interests while preparing the meetings.
Keywords: World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS + 10, International Telecommunication Union, information society.
On the Way to Becoming an Information Society: Bridging of the Digital Divide among Senior Citizens
LYSENKO Edward Anatolyevich, FEDOSEEVA Svetlana Valentinovna
The article is devoted to the project aimed at bridging the digital divide among senior citizens. The project is implemented in the Yaroslavl region. The experience of creating training centers for citizens mastering information technology is presented.
Keywords: information society, digital divide, computer technology, volunteers, citizens of the information society.
New Mass Media: Theoretical Comprehension Issues
BALUEV Dmitriy Gennadyevich, KAMINCHENKO Dmitriy Igorevich
The article considers specific features of new mass media and the problem of their definition. The authors analyze characteristics of new mass media as a social institution and a tool of reality representation. They attempt to shape their own definition of new mass media that would be in line with their specific features.
Keywords: new mass media, social institution, Internet, interactivity.
Information Costs in the Information Network Economy: New Trends
KOBLOVA Yuliya Aleksandrovna
The article considers specific features of shaping information costs in the information network economy context. The author has identified two opposite trends: reducing costs of information access and increasing costs of choosing relevant information. It has been proven that minimizing information costs through their distribution via network results in shaping information cascades and network-type rationality.
Keywords: information, information costs, information network economy, information cascade, network rationality.
Service-Oriented Region as the Basis for New Quality of Life
NOSKO Boris Petrovich, SALAMATIN Dmitriy Yurievich
A service-oriented region is a region, where authorities tend to ensure high-quality and accessible public and municipal services rendered to the citizens, and to shape favourable conditions for service sector development. The main element of the service-oriented region is a system designed to provide public and municipal services based on multi-functional centers. To assess, whether regional authorities efficiently work towards shaping the service-oriented region, the service-oriented region index, a comprehensive integrated indicator, may be used.
Keywords: service, multi-functional center of public and municipal services, service-oriented region.
Russian Information Environment: Television and the Internet Usage in the Cross-Country Comparison Context
NAZAROV Mikhail Mikhaylovich
Purpose of the article is to assess perspectives of using television and the Internet in the Russian information environment. The authors apply forecast extrapolation method that allows considering specific features of using communication tools in the “advanced” information infrastructure markets as a benchmark for Russia. Empiric foundation of the work is made up of comparative cross-country research of media consumption for the last five years. The authors justify the thesis that perspectives of Russian media landscape are associated with convergence and mutual complementation of television and the Internet.
Keywords: information environment, media consumption, television, the Internet, media landscape fragmentation, media convergence.
Computer Technologies in Assisting Development of Municipality Areas
GORELOV Ivan Aleksandrovich, NEMTINOV Vladimir Alekseevich
The article considers issues of modern urban development as related with the need to take into account a multitude of diverse conditions and specific features of the territory to be developed. With vast amount of used information, development of the technology capable of information pre-processing comes to the forefront. Therefore it is proposed to create an information model of the object that would contain characteristics of its main properties and their graphical image. With such approach, a specialist can classify all information of the real object, streamline its storage on the digital media and ensure it is analyzed efficiently.
Keywords: computer technologies, development of municipality areas, information model, urban planning, imagery, system analysis.
International Practice and Trends in the Application of Modern Information-Communication Technologies in the Population Census
MANZHULA Oleg Vladimirovich
The article examines the international trends of application of modern ICTs in the population census on the basis of best practices in such country as Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the USA and prospects of their use in Russia.
Keywords: census of population, information and communication technologies.
