Information Society and State Identity
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Management, Saint-Petersburg Branch of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
The article considers the phenomenon of state identity and its transformation in the era of society informatization. The author analyzes main trends of information society development that affect shaping of state identity, and the issues that have significant importance for state governance practice: identity multiplicity, identity crisis in the national state, transformation of “citizen – state” relations system.
Key words: information society, national state, identity crisis, transnational migration.
Theoretical Aspects of Social Network Modelling
Postgraduate Student of the Faculty of National Security, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, member of the Russian Political Science Association
The article considers the notion of “social network” in term of social theory. It is noted that network analysis is an efficient method of researching political processes in international relations. Informal relations of individuals through social network enhance information exchange. Considering wide-spread penetration of social networks, their impact on the social environment in certain countries and worldwide, researching this phenomenon acquires ever greater importance both in theoretical and practical terms.
Key words: social networks, network analysis, political process, international relations.
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Practical Philosophy, Omsk State Teacher’s Training University
Today’s era features explosive growth of information flow. A person is not capable to process huge volume of information with high quality, that is why conscience disintegrates, inner world loses its depth, while an interested eye rides on the surface of information diversity without properly comprehending rich content of received data. This results in phenomenon of superficial information consumption.
Key words: hyper-informatisation, information diversity, information consumption.
Law Enforcement System of the Russian Federation in the Context of the Information Society
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of Support Office of Police Station No. 9, Krasnoyarsk Inter-Municipal Administration, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
The article is devoted to specific features of functioning of the law enforcement system in the course of the information society development. It analyzes criteria, according to which implemented lines of activities can be considered as those in line with the information society. The author concludes that law enforcement sector is included in this process only formally, with the form prevailing over content.
Key words:
government services, democracy, Internet, information society, public organizations, transparency, law enforcement system.
Transparency of the Municipal Government System
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Doctoral Student of the Department of Sociology, Perm National Research Polytechnic University
The article is devoted to issues of transparency of local governments as the authority, which is closest to citizens. The author analyzes obstacles hampering closer interaction between municipal authorities and local community.
Key words: local self-government, informational interaction, municipal authority, government transparency, local community.
Candidate of Philological Sciences , Assistant Professor of the Department of Advertisement and Public Relations, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
The article considers socio-communicational phenomenon of corporate media in the context of integration of this specific type of media on the World Wide Web. The author analyzes additional media, interactive and other opportunities that online technologies open to corporate periodical publications, defines its place in modern social and marketing communications, and demonstrates their relation with solving certain business tasks. Special attention is paid to peculiarities of practical operations and content quality of new corporate media.
corporate media, company media, online, content, communications, Internet technologies, public relations.
IT for Libraries: Time of New Solutions
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Director General, Data Express Ltd.
LEVOVA Lyudmila Vasilyevna
Chief Executive Officer, Data Express Ltd.
The article is devoted to issues of developing software tools designed to automate library technologies.
The authors have analyzed the situation showing pre-requisites of creating the next-generation automated library IT system. The article singles out groups of requirements of both libraries and users to the next-generation automated library IT system.
On the basis of these requirements the main principles for the development of a next-generation automated library IT system, including modern architectural solutions, using up-to-date development toolkit, original solutions and know-hows, are determined.
Based on experience of creating MegaPro automated integrated library system, the authors demonstrate the tasks they solved, present characteristics and functionality of the system.
Key words: information technologies, automation, library, cloud technologies, three-tiered architecture, design of the automated integrated library system.
Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Director General, Polimedia CJSC; Doctoral Student of the Department of IT in Governance, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; member of International Association of Information and Communications Technologies (InfoCommInternational)
KLIMOVA Alisa Arkadyevna
Analyst, Polimedia CJSC, Postgraduate Student of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
The article deals with some aspects of developing criteria for assessment of the situation based on performance indicators of the region and their visualization. Situation room capabilities for analysis and representation of vast amount of data allow for prompt decision-making at different levels of responsibility, in the context of information flow of different scale and quality.
Key words: situation room, assessment criteria, performance indicators.