CYBERSPACE: TERRITORY OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2018-24-1-52-70
Abstract
The development of wireless technologies and digital infrastructure has radically changed the relationships of individuals with their habitat and with each other. Instead of boundaries and separation, researchers increasingly describe the modern world, using concepts of network, connectivity and flow. The article presents theoretical positions within the framework of the sociological analysis of cyberspace as a special type of space emerging as a result of the development of information and communication technologies. The specifics of different approaches to the definition of cyberspace in the context of the description of the time-space distantiation as one of the key characteristic of modern society in which network structures have a decisive influence are considered. The paper concludes that, despite the large number of studies devoted to the issues of cyberspace, the interpretation of this concept is highly ambiguous. The technological basis for the design of cyberspace, as well as the understanding that any space is socially constructed, allows us to consider cyberspace in the perspective of studying its physical, social and informational aspects. This new type of space, characteristic of the networked societies of the 21st century, has a number of features that point to its virtuality, network nature of functioning, multidimensionality, nonlinearity, variability, the ability to be a public and private space and the basis for constructing a networked identity.
About the Author
D. E. Dobrinskaya
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Sociology, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology
Leninsky Gory 1-33, Moscow, 119234
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Dobrinskaya D.E. CYBERSPACE: TERRITORY OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2018;24(1):52-70. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2018-24-1-52-70
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