Imperatives of the Information Policy
Candidate of Sociological Sciences; Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy; Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Law of the Tomsk National Research Polytechnic University
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.
Key words: 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
Doctor of Engineering, Professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Leading Research Fellow of the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Evgeniy Leonidovich LOGINOV
Doctor of Economics, Deputy Director General of the Institute for Economic Strategies
Dionisiy Nikolaevich EFREMOV
Chief Expert Specialist of the State Policy Department for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
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.
Key words: information management and analysis, science, education, real sector of economy, needs market, structures, management.
Axiological Portrait of Gamers
Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Social Communications, Head of the Department of Philosophy of the Astrakhan State University
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.
Key words: computer games, gamers, values, e-culture.
Graduate Student of the Department of the Civil and Business Law of the
Faculty of Law, Kazan Federal University
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.
Key words: insider information, insider, insider activities, insider trading, information discrimination, regulated market, investor.
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Sociology and Organization of Work with Youth of the Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities
Nataliya Andreevna ROSTOVSKAYA
Candidate of Culturology, Teacher of English in School No. 121 (State Educational Institution of Secondary Education), Moscow
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.
Key words: 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
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of the Theory of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)
Olga Valeryevna LEDNEVA
Candidate of Economic Sciences; Associate Professor of the Department of Business Statistics of the Moscow Financial and Industrial University ‘Synergiya’; Associate Professor of the Department of Business Statistics of the National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’
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”.
Key words: information society, information and telecommunication technologies, ICT Development Index, ICT Price Basket, digital natives