Papush A.A. The study of information society: influence of the Internet upon society

Abstract: The problematics of the study of the role of Internet in politics is directly connected with the establishment of information society and the further understanding of politics. Due to this fact, the subject of this article became the examination of theoretical research of information society in the context of the influence of Internet upon people’s lives, and particularly upon the political process. The article presents the forecasts of the scholars pertaining to the transformation of human civilization from the moment of active informatization and popularization of Internet in the developed societies since the end of 1960’s. The author explores the concepts of the scholars, whose works to the most extent affecter the study of the establishment of post-industrial society. Based on the rendered in the article forecasts of the development of human civilization under the influence of informatization and extensive spread of Internet, the author formulates the basic features of post-industrial society. The description of prospects of the use of Internet technologies contains the listing of available options of increasing the efficiency of the society, as well as the threat to their destabilization.

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