Information Society, 2014, Issue 2
Keywords and Abstracts
Is There Any Alternative to the Internet?
Mikhail Yakushev
ICANN is an organization, whose function is the assignment of the Internet address space and control of adherence to the standards and procedures, established by the Working Group on Internet Engineering, the Internet Architecture Board and other technical organizations developing appropriate standards by this process participants . Like any multi-level global network, the Internet is developing according to its own laws based on the physical and mathematical principles. It is claimed that Internet technology is the main way of communication development, where the balance of complexity and convenience is found.
Keywords: ICANN, Internet-technologies, domain names, address space, information culture, information security.
Imperatives of the Information Policy
Anna Yuryevna KARPOVA
The article asserts that processes evolving in the information sphere reflect political processes and result in social, economic and political changes. The article sets the task of defining imperatives of the information policy and outlining issues of their implementation. Imperatives are articulated specifically to describe the vector of the information policy and are provided in the article for the first time. Mass media and the Internet that are to enable interaction of government and society are a conductor of the state information policy. However, according to the author, a systemic communicative interaction is being destructed, which she defines as the information anomie.
Keywords: imperative, power, information policy, information anomie, communication, atomization, dysfunction, legitimacy, delegitimation.
Educational, Research and Production Network as a Backbone and Convergent Factor in the Information Society Infrastructure
Aleksandr Nikolaevich RAYKOV, Evgeniy Leonidovich LOGINOV, Dionisiy Nikolaevich EFREMOV
According to the article, it is necessary to create a backbone integrated educational, research and production network to ensure continuous growth of competence of personnel of state and local authorities, enterprises and organizations. This will allow to ensure that the education and science sphere is in line with the dynamically segmented needs of the real sector of economy.
Keywords: information management and analysis, science, education, real sector of economy, needs market, structures, management.
Axiological Portrait of Gamers
Lyudmila Vladimirovna BAYEVA
Gaming phenomenon begins to play the role of one of significant elements of everyday culture and attracts well-deserved attention as a subject of study. A man of today’s era has truly turned into “homo ludens” – “a playing man”. Special youth community of gamers and roleplayers appeared, for whom virtual or real-life games became the main form of escapism. In the information era, the top-priority value turns out to be not only information as such, but also a game in the information space as a tool of adaptation to the environment set in the new stage of mankind development. The article sets the task of studying gaming as socio-cultural phenomenon, identifying its attributes, specific features of gamers’ world perception, building gamers’ classification. The author applies axiological approach that allows to characterize values and preferences of modern gamers and risks related with outspread of this type of social behavior.
Keywords: computer games, gamers, values, e-culture.
Counteraction to Misuse of Insider Information
Azaliya Faridovna AKHMADULLINA
The article analyses the issue of digital divide in the regulated market in relation with misuse of insider information, i.e., key market data that are not disclosed to general public. The insider issue lying in moral, ethical, economic and legal planes is asserted to have considerable impact on investment attractiveness and confidence in the country’s economy in general. The article reveals main aspects of legal counteraction to insider activities, legal means of protecting interrelated public and private interests. The idea that the existing legal route features a number of disadvantages in what concerns its regulations, procedures and methods is substantiated. The article proposes ways of improving the existing legislation aimed to combat the insider information misuse.
Keywords: insider information, insider, insider activities, insider trading, information discrimination, regulated market, investor.
Role of Mass Communications in Socializing Young Adults and Young Families
Tamara Kerimovna ROSTOVSKAYA, Nataliya Andreevna ROSTOVSKAYA
The article considers impact of various means of mass communication on shaping young adults personalities and young families. The authors single out main functions of mass media in the context of such impact and provide recommendations for shaping young-adult environment that would assist in strengthening the family as social institute based on Russian cultural traditions as well as moral and spiritual values.
Keywords: mass communications, young adults, young family, television, the Internet, advertisement, family crisis, negative impact, mass media, common-law marriage, homosexual marriage, youth subcultures, government youth policy, government information policy.
Measuring Efficiency of Information Society Development in Russia and Some Other Countries
Elena Nikolaevna KLOCHKOVA, Olga Valeryevna LEDNEVA
The article is devoted to information society measurement. The focus is made on cost and affordability of ICT services that are assessed according to international methodologies. The main assessment element is the ICT Development Index (IDI), according to which countries are ranked. The authors set the goal of presenting unbiased picture of information society development on the basis of measures that would act as the foundation for improvement of ICT policy in the countries in question. Besides, this work presents the data of the ICT Price Basket (IPB) and indicators of measuring the number of “digital natives”.
Keywords: information society, information and telecommunication technologies, ICT Development Index, ICT Price Basket, digital natives.
