Name
Vashenko Alexander Vladimirovich
Scholastic degree
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Academic rank
associated professor
Honorary rank
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Organization, job position
Kuban State University
Web site url
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Articles count: 1
The modern informational technologies and the
Internet as a part of them are changing our world.
These changes are the reason for genesis of new
theoretical concepts in the middle of XX century,
which research the influence of informational
technologies on spheres of social life. Step by step
we developed different theoretical concepts of
“Informational society”, which try to predict the
prospects of society. We have formed a new term of
“cyberspace”, but scientists still argue about its
meaning. One part thinks that it has only “network”
meaning, which means that cyberspace is only the
Internet, another part understands this term more
widely, include the hardware part in this term. In
this article, the author analyzes different theoretical
concepts which research the question of genesis and
development of informational society, and the
process of forming of the term of “cyberspace”,
research of the process of transformation of “postindustrial
society” into “informational society”,
highlight the main ideas of informational society
concepts