Abstract
The article deals with the history of the formation, current state and prospects for the development of social informatics as a current direction in science and education in Russia. The article offers mainly a personal view of the author, who has been involved in shaping social informatics in Russia for the last three decades. The article presents the distinctive features of the Russian scientific school of social informatics and its priorities in the formation of this field. The main directions of research in the field of social informatics in Russia in the context of the formation of the global information society are determined. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of many issues related to social informatics and their systematic study. Finally, the article summarizes the current necessity for the deep study of issues related to social informatics, e.g., information inequality, information crime, cyberbullies, manipulation of consciousness, virtualization of society, information wars, information poverty, information culture, and using computers to analyse social phenomena such as communication via social media. It is important not only in the area of scientific research but also in the system of secondary and higher education and training of scholars.
Highlights
Today, social informatics is one of the most important and promising areas in science and education in Russia and other post-Soviet countries
A constructive solution here can be the widespread introduction of the general education discipline “Social Informatics” into the education system, which aims to ensure the formation of new knowledge and skills that people need in the new information environment
The analysis shows that the global information society opens up fundamentally new opportunities for scientific analysis and forecasting of many social processes, i.e., for studying the dynamics of society itself using the methodology of social informatics
Summary
Social informatics is one of the most important and promising areas in science and education in Russia and other post-Soviet countries It studies the processes of information interaction in society in the context of its globalization and complex informatization. Social informatics has been developing in Russia for more than 30 years (Kolin, 2015) This is one of the most important sections of informatics – the science of information processes in nature and society. The development of social informatics as a science and educational discipline should contribute to the solution of these problems It should become the scientific basis of the global information society that is already being formed today (Castels, 2000), which many scientists consider to be a new, higher stage of the development of civilization (Kolin, 2002)
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