Vladimirova, T.V. Information security: social practices and structures.

Abstract: Definition of information security continues its formation in various spheres of social life, as well as in theoretical knowledge in general. The author considers that various study directions and approaches to information security may be regarded from a single methodological standpoint, as expressed in the language of social and philosophical theory. Such an operation in the view of the author shall facilitate further development and fulfillment of the understanding of social nature of this term. The author connects information security guarantees with understanding and possession of specificities of the modern social practices, allowing to keep information streams adequate to the outside world for an individual or social systems, thus, providing for comprehensive and sustainable situation for individuals and systems in the conditions of growing deviations/innovations, communication variability and growing intensity of information streams. Theoretical and methodological basis for the study is formed with the sociological theories of A. Giddens, M. Castells, J. Urry. The author also uses the works of Russian scientists in the sphere of information security guarantees. It is noted that guarantees of information security are formed with various social practices and social structures. The offered approach allows to develop understanding of social aspects of information security, to see specific features of information guarantees practices, to fix the contradiction between locality of structures and the network stream character of information threats. It is noted that high intensity of communication mobility practices in security guarantees becomes possible thanks to security privatization as a specific feature of such practices.

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