Information Society, 2015, Issue 2-3
Keywords and Abstracts
E-Transformation: Evolutionary Challenges to Render South Africa a Digital Society
Luci ABRAHAMS
The article on the background of the extensive statistical information shows the process of development of information society in South Africa. A marked differentiation of the population in terms of access to information and communication technology in general and the Internet in particular, due to sharp differences in income and the high cost of digital services. Attention is drawn to the lack of definition of public policies in this area.
Keywords: digital society, innovative economy, electronic communications, e-infrastructure, Internet services, mobile communications.
Transforming to a Networked Society. A Guide for Policy Makers
Nagy HANNA
The article analyses goals, objectives and functions of government in the process of e-transformation and the formation of the networked society. The author pays attention to the painful process of implementing a new social paradigm; recommendations are formulated to overcome the barriers.
Keywords: electronic (digital) transformation, network structure, innovation, digital technology, government.
Evolution of Mental Models in the Network Information Society
Yuliya Aleksandrovna KOBLOVA
The article researches general vector of informal institution transformations in the Internet era. While integrating in different social practices, Internet communications are shown to be able to change the shaped mental models. The author identifies tendencies of informal institutions’ evolution in the context of information society and economy.
Keywords: informal institutions, mental models, ICT, network information economy, the Internet.
Developing Recommendations on Using the National Population Census Data Based on the Open Government Concept
Oleg Vladimirovich MANZHULA
The article considers key tasks of implementing principles of open and available data when conducting the National Population Census and distributing its results. The author has defined open state resource of statistics that is a set of shaped unified methodical, organizational principles and technology concepts of information databases.
Keywords: National Population Census, technology, open data, monitoring, enhanced efficiency, information and communications technologies, open state resource of statistics.
Modern Society and Networking Society
Irina Vitalyevna LYSAK, Ludmila Fedorovna KOSENCHUK
The article analyses basic approaches to modern society as a networking society Networking structure is considered as a decentralized set of interrelated nodes that is able to extend through including new nodes, thus attaching flexibility and dynamic properties to the network. In society, such “node” is a social entity that is able to process, accumulate and produce new information. With distribution of networking structures and networking logic in place, we can talk of currently shaping networking culture that has asynchronous, non-linear features, semantic and axiological pluralism, domination of publicity.
Keywords: networking structures, social media, rhizome, networking society, networking culture.
Writing and Reading on Paper and on Screen
Olga Nikolaevna VERSHINSKAYA
The article presents preliminary results of research studying students’ preferences of reading and writing on paper or with digital media. The author concludes that for the most part young people clearly differentiate spheres of using traditional and new media.
Keywords: interpersonal communication, media, virtual environment, social transformations, the Internet.
Information Society and the Phenomenon of Sliding Consumerism
Aleksey Nikolaevich ILYIN
Today’s world is often called information-focused, but it can be equally referred to as pseudo informational, since it gives rise to increasing flows of both information and disinformation. Information redundancy reduces the reflection level as a person is not able to process huge volumes of information. As a result, the phenomenon of information consumerism (sliding consumerism) comes to the forefront – non-reflexive, superficial, with no criteria of differentiating between truth and myth.
Keywords: hyper informatization, pseudo information, information consumption (consumerism).
Regional Informatization: Powers Allocation Optimization
OEfimov Alexey Borisovich, Raikov Aleksander Nikolaevich, Shubenkova Aleksandra Yuryevna
Infrastructure projects are an important part of municipal reform allowing increase manifold the efficiency of local governments. Such projects include the development of information systems on regional and municipal levels. Comprehensive analysis of the federal, regional and municipal legal framework regulating the activities of local authorities in the field of informatization indicates the need to achieve balance in the allocation of powers in the field of informatization on municipal level. The article proves the possibility and reasonability of the transfer of some powers in this area from the municipal level to the level of region of the Russian Federation.
Keywords: informatization, public authority, local authority, powers, optimization, the region of the Russian Federation, the examination.
3D Graphic Reconstruction and Visualization of an Archeological Monument
Elena Aleksandrovna CHERNENKO
The article considers importance of presenting graphic historical archeological information. Reconstruction and visualization of heritage sites shapes new information space. The results of 3D simulation allow to get an idea of archeological sites that existed earlier but now are fully or partially destroyed. The author consideres site reconstruction methods, and presents the simulation results.
Keywords: graphical information, information society culture, computer graphics, 3D model, visualization.
Developing the Legislation on Official E-Publication of Regulations of the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation
Ekaterina Sergeevna LUTSENKO, Stanislav Vitalievich SKLIFUS
The article analyzes modern trends in using ICT to publish official legal information. The authors note enhanced availability of such information in such environment, as well as the need to unify sources of legal information used by different constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Keywords: regulations, official publications of the regulations, methods of distributing legal information, e-publishing.
On the Issue of Fragmenting the Modern Media Landscape: Theory and Empirical Results
Mikhail Mikhailovich NAZAROV
The author focuses on the phenomenon of media space fragmentation. Technology-related and social / economic pre-conditions are discussed, fragmentation consequences are considered in terms of perspectives of shaping new cultural / information environment. Interpretation of modern trends of media fragmentation in Russia based on empirical data analysis is offered. The author substantiates his opinion that theoretical ideas of fragmentation resulting in small closed audience groups are likely to be exaggerated. The idea of mass and niche media mutually complementing each other is the most realistic in short and mid-term.
Keywords: media fragmentation, audience, going digital, media landscape transformation, television, the Internet.
PR Technologies as a Tool of Efficiently Promoting Youth State Programmes
Tamara Kerimovna Rostovskaya, Tatiana Andreevna Kipshara
The article considers different kinds of mass communications and their impact on shaping young adults and young families.
The authors also single out main functions of mass media in the context of their impact on young people and provide recommendations for shaping positively oriented, patriotic young-adult environment that would assist to strengthening the family as social institute based on Russian cultural traditions and moral and spiritual values.
Keywords: state programmes for young adults, family institution, cultural traditions, moral and spiritual values.
Information Analysis of View Images of Urban Development
Vladimir Alekseevich NEMTINOV, Ivan Aleksandrovich GORELOV, Maria Olegovna VOROBYOVA
Authors consider main kinds of images used in different historical stages of drawing large plots of urban developments. They provide arguments in favour of images of cities and towns’ areas in the form of axonometric projections, with “zenith isometry” preferred. A lot of attention is paid to primary view sources, and their importance is emphasized in terms of information content required to later come over to CAD drawings of urban areas. The suggested approach to view images is illustrated with the example of stepwise drawing of Tambov’s central part.
Keywords: information analysis, view image, urban planning, construction programme.
