European Approach to Analysis of Social Effects of Informatization
Keywords:
cooperation in science and technology, COST Actions, social affects of ICT development, the Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population at the Russian Academy of Sciences, ICT domestication, e-actors.Abstract
The article illustrates experience of European cooperation under COST Actions – research, in which an important role is attached to examining social effects of informatization. Characteristics of cross-disciplinary projects deployed due to this initiative is given. Both theoretical research of European scientists and their empiric findings confirm the need to examine hardware not only as a tangible object, but as the node in the network of social relations and interactions in the Man-Machine System. This is the purpose of future research.