Network Society Research Articles

Mobile life and family. The impact of ICTs on spatial‐geographic mobility

AbstractThe family is in a constant process of adaptation to the structural changes brought about by the network society, such as the digitalization of social relationships as a result of the extension of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The aim of this study is to examine the process of spatial‐geographic mobility in Spain supported by ICTs within the family. To meet this objective, data from two studies by the Spanish Center for Sociological Research (2015 and 2016) focused on understanding the Impact of ICTs on the Family in Spain were analysed. The results indicate that the probability of moving geographically is greater when instant messaging software and digital social networks are used within the family. Differences are found in sociodemographic and social status factors. The probability of moving geographically increases when the use of ICTs enables families to become more efficient and competent and when their social capital increases.

Higher Education and the Challenges of Network Society: Philosophical Themes

The article presents a philosophical analysis of the humanitarian impact of educational reform due to the influence of new digital technologies. The post-industrial development of society has been characterized as a network society. Specifically, the revolution in media today defines the technological and substantive changes in the educational sector. Its modernization in the 1990s in Russia began through the discussion of the humanitarian mission of the classical university model. However, the process of globalization and the mobility of education demanded the alignment and unification of national educational programs. The Bologna Process was a response. It was implemented in Russia as a two-tiered system, although the society still needed specialists and engineers rather than bachelors and masters. The restructuring of the educational process to comply with international standards then led to the necessity of economic reform. Society needed educated specialists but could not support a large number of educational institutions with a sizable staff. In the manufacturing sector, automatization leads to a growth in workforce productivity whereas in education the traditional pedagogy is mainly practiced. Digital technologies have opened up new opportunities for the increased economic efficiency of centers of education. However, the faculty body, especially in the Humanities sphere, expressed strong criticism. The argument is that digital technologies do not solve pedagogic problems. While discussing the economic efficiency, the main, substantive issue of the meaning and purpose of education has been left aside. Hence the question of how an individual’s education can be embedded into the overall educational process continues to be of high relevance. Resorting to philosophy may be appropriate and reasonable inasmuch as it has accumulated a range of caring and self-preservation practices aimed at the development of social skills of an individuum. Philosophy can also provide an anthropological expertise of on-going reforms, identifying their social and cultural implications.

Research on online management system of network ideological and political education of college students

With the development of the network society, the life of college students is shrouded by the network society, and there are more and more channels for them to contact various kinds of information, which brings new challenges to their ideological and ideological behaviors. We need to use the correct, active, positive way to increase the ideological network political education of students. College students' ideological and political education also gradually stepped into the network education wave, in the process of the new era of university education, network education is more and more important in the process of ideological and political education. Inn carrying out the education work in colleges and universities, we should departure from the specific teaching content, in order to effectively promote the physical and mental development of college students, and ensure the ideological and political education of college students. The development of network provides a broader path for ideological and political education, and network education is also a new challenge for ideological and political educators. This paper proposes an efficient online education management system based on cloud computing technology, which improves the traditional information management process and information classification algorithm, and can be a good online education task.

Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics

Network concepts are omnipresent in contemporary diagnoses (network society), management practices (network governance), social science methods (network analysis) and theories (network theory). Instigating a critical analysis of network concepts, this article explores the sources and relevance of networks in Foucault’s social theory. I argue that via Foucault we can trace network concepts back to cybernetics, a research programme that initiated a shift from ‘being’ to ‘doing’ and developed a new theory of regulation based on connectivity and codes, communication and circulation. This insight contributes to two debates: Firstly, it highlights a neglected influence on Foucault’s theory that travelled from cybernetics via structuralism and Canguilhem into his concept of power. Secondly, it suggests that network society and governance are neither a product of neoliberalism nor of technological artefacts, such as the Internet. They rather resulted from a distinct tradition of cybernetically inspired theories and practices.

Abstract PS9-61: Incidence of intravenous (IV) hydration post anthracycline-cyclophosphamide (AC) chemotherapy in breast cancer patients

Abstract Background: Managing delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) associated with highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC) is an unmet need. AC-based HEC is often administered to breast cancer patients. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network and American Society of Clinical Oncology antiemetic guidelines recommend that if breakthrough CINV occurs, treatment should include an antiemetic agent from a different class not used in prophylaxis, as well as intravenous hydration and/or dexamethasone. The primary objective of this study is to retrospectively determine the incidence of IV hydration in post AC chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. Methods: The charts of 270 breast cancer patients receiving AC chemotherapy at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and on initial 3-drug prophylactic antiemetic regimens were retrospectively reviewed to determine the frequency, incidence, and timing of IV hydration. The hydration incidence was determined for 4 consecutive cycles of AC chemotherapy. The need for hydration was recorded post chemotherapy (e.g., nausea, vomiting, anorexia, loss of appetite, decreased oral intake). Physician and nurse chart notes were reviewed, including documented hydration visits post AC chemotherapy to outpatient infusion areas, local hospital emergency departments, or local hospital inpatient admissions. This report focuses on the patients who were on a guideline-recommended 3-drug regimen (palonosetron [Palo] + Neurokinin-1 [NK1] + dexamethasone [Dex], or ondansetron [Ond] + NK1 + Dex). These patients were followed and monitored for 4 consecutive cycles of AC chemotherapy, and the incidence of hydrations in different cycles was evaluated. Results: 270 patients were included in this analysis; 179 patients received Palo + NK1 + Dex (Group 1) and 91 patients received Ond + NK1 + Dex (Group 2) antiemetic regimens. Of the 179 patients in Group 1, 28 (16%) received hydration post chemotherapy, and 20 (22%) of the 91 patients in Group 2 received hydration (P=0.198, Chi-square test). Demographics and clinical characteristics of the 48 patients receiving hydration are presented in the Table. 28 patients in Group 1 had a total of 36 hydrations, the majority (20 [56%]) of which were in Cycle 1. 26/28 patients received rescue antiemetic treatment at the time of hydration, and 11 had a change in their prophylactic antiemetic regimen after hydration in subsequent chemotherapy cycles. Similarly, in Group 2, 20 patients had a total of 25 hydrations, with the majority (13 [52%]) in Cycle 1. 19 patients received rescue antiemetic treatment at the time of hydration, and 10 had a change in their prophylactic antiemetic regimen in subsequent chemotherapy cycles. Conclusions: The incidence of IV hydration post chemotherapy in breast cancer patients following AC-based HEC regimens occurred predominantly in the first cycle. Unscheduled hydrations, which occur when patients require evaluation in the clinic, and/or emergency department, may be complementary events for breakthrough measurement in CINV and could serve as a surrogate of associated healthcare utilization costs. Further clinical trials may consider evaluating unscheduled hydrations rates as part of a composite complete response endpoint (no breakthrough, no rescue medication, no unscheduled hydration). Table: Demographic and Antiemetic Regimens for Patients Requiring Post-chemo HydrationGroup 1Group 2Palo + NK1 + DexOnd + NK1 + Dex(n=179)(n=91)Post-chemo hydration, n (%)28 (16)20 (22)Demographics and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Post-chemo Hydration (n=48)Median age, years (range)s56 (35-73)58 (33-70)Sex, n (%)Female27 (96)20 (100)Male1 (4)0ECOG Performance Status, n (%)015 (53)12 (60)112 (43)7 (35)201 (5)Unknown1 (4)0IV access, n (%)Central26 (93)20 (100)Peripheral2 (7)0Antiemetic Regimens Prior to Chemotherapy and Hydration RequirementsTotal number of patients requiring hydration, n (%)28 (16)20 (22)Total number of hydrations, n3625Number of hydrations in Cycle 1, n (%)20 (56)13 (52)Visits, n (%)Office16 (57)12 (60)Emergency department12 (43)8 (40)Rescue antiemetic(s) at time of hydration, n (%)26 (93)19 (95)Prophylactic antiemetic regimen switched, n (%)11 (39)10 (50)Dex = dexamethasone; ECOG = Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group; IV = intravenous;NK1 = Neurokinin-1; Ond = ondansetron; Palo = palonosetron. Citation Format: Rudolph M. Navari, Michael C. Mosier. Incidence of intravenous (IV) hydration post anthracycline-cyclophosphamide (AC) chemotherapy in breast cancer patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PS9-61.

The digital revolution and digitalized network society

This lecture discusses technological revolutions and techno-economic paradigms, but with an emphasis on the digital revolution and the digitalization of the economic and society. It draws its inspiration from works of Joseph Schumpeter, Christopher Freeman, and Carlota Perez on long waves of technological development and places the story within the context of global innovation networks. The lecture contends that the digital revolution not only transformed the world we live in but also created new ways to organize networks within it. We are now in second half of the digital (fifth technological) revolution, when the digitalization of the global networked economy prevails, and not at the beginning of Industrie 4.0. On the contrary, this is the period when economic growth drives the use of innovative digital technologies, including ubiquitous computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence, toward a truly digitalized network society.

Preface - smart city and its development

Gusti Ayu Made Suartika Master Program in Architecture - Planning and Development, Udayana University, Denpasar Campus, 80232, Bali-Indonesia.Email: ayusuartika@unud.ac.idCities are contingent on the historical forces that have shaped their development. Among these are colonization, industrialization, technology, and information. Today the Smart City has emerged as one possible answer to the emergent problems of urbanization in the 21st century. It joins a multitude of concepts and ideas that address daily life in the post-industrial world of informational capitalism – the sustainable city, the creative city, the green city, and the liveable city – and the Smart City that now seems to resonate with urban administrations and urban designers worldwide. The question is what is it?Cities are merely reflections of the political economy of their own history. They are acts of imagination that combine use values and exchange values, political elites and poverty, fixed and mobile capital, multi-modal transport systems, and a chessboard of land uses that reflect urban politics, investment strategies, densities and class distinctions, histories, and expectations. There is no ‘one size fits all’, and cities worldwide contain a vast range of differences. On the basis of capitalist urbanization, most cities grow by consuming themselves – by destroying the old to build the new in an effort to reduce crime, pollution, waste disposal, amenity, security and to increase the rate of commodity circulation to generate wealth.All historical periods have advanced on three fronts; first, the stockpiling of capital; second, the progression of ideologies that inform development and third, technological advancement. The smart city paradigm falls into the latter category. It is firmly committed to informational technology and informational capital to fuel progress. Given this commitment, the problem is that human interests may be subsumed to technological ‘efficiency’, forgetting that what is human and what is technical, are not homologous. A central problem, therefore, is how to temper the use of technology with democratic politics and the voice of the people.Today’s social system has been described as ‘the Network Society’ - the product of informational capitalism. This has entailed massive shifts in power, identity and traditional concepts of place as the virtual world of the space of flows reconfigures the material world in a diversity of forms. In the process, many cities thrive, while others sink in a sea of decay. Development is not democratic, and those cities that become hard-wired fastest also have the economic advantage as well, attracting a new ‘creative class’ of intellectuals, artists, business people, and professionals who then support a plethora of new urban spaces. As a resolution to the above problems, the smart city is therefore not merely a neutral technological fix. It is infused with problems that need to be interrogated if a more humane as opposed to a more efficient environment is to emerge.As we might expect, the smart city is frequently lauded as a panacea for all ills. To test this idea, the third International Conference on Smart City Innovation (ICSCI)-2020 provided space for all forms of critique and debate in order to test the reality of the smart city in theory and practice, and as a viable strategy for future urbanization. In so doing, this conference was conducted to embrace the following four themes and extended topics:1. Energy & environment:(a) Sustainable energy storage system for urban built environment;(b) Urban energy system, security and sustainability2. Infrastructure:(a) Sustainable urban mobility(b) Sustainable urban water management(c) Sustainable regional development3. Information and communication technologies/ICT and mobility:(a) Extending urban healthcare services to rural areas(b) Internet of things/IoT4. Quality of life:(a) Urban housing infrastructure, policy & technology(b) Live-able urban environment(c) Urban healthcare servicesIn contrast to the previous two ICSCI gatherings, the conduct of the 2020 exposition was organized in conjunction with the 13th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Energy Engineering (RCEneE). This collaboration was completely executed in online mode using Webex. This rationale was decided in response to the ongoing development of the Covid-19 pandemic that started at the end of year 2019 and has had a devastating global impact. Despite regretfully being unable to proceed on the basis of face-to-face encounter, the conference was successfully delivered. It was engaging and well supported, and the Committee would like to express its sincere appreciation to all of those who made this event possible. Thank you.

Local Traditions and Global Inspiration: Design Students in Singapore and Norway

AbstractToday’s graphic design students embody inspiration from sources associated with globalisation, not least online, as well as local impulses from everyday life. In this article, we draw upon the work of two student groups – one in Norway, one in Singapore – to investigate the relationship between input and how they are used to design the packaging of food products. Two classes got similar design briefs and worked simultaneously in two countries, communicating through a common Facebook group. By the end of the project, each class discussed and analysed their sources of inspiration. The design solutions were dissected in separate design elements to look for national characteristics, despite similar international digital inspiration. By investigating cultural differences and similarities in designing based on the hypothesis that design students in Singapore and Norway have the same online design inspiration, this article demonstrates how international sources of inspiration affect the local visual traditions of designers. However, the prioritisation of design elements reveals that despite living in a global network society, designers still adhere to national design traditions.

Chronemic urgency in everyday digital communication

The experience of a lack of time due to an increasing burden of urgent tasks is one of the more common challenges created by digital communication media in the network society. This study develops the concept of chronemic urgency to explore urgent messaging using digital media. Chronemic urgency is the urgency users assign to messages received via a specific communication medium. Consistent with a communication perspective, the urgency is a function of both the relationship and the media. This study uses social entrainment theory and expectancy violations theory to conceptualize the chronemic urgency construct. This construct is then examined in a pilot study of the chronemic urgency 773 US-based participants assign to the communication media they use at least on a weekly basis. High chronemic urgency is assigned to messages received through media that (1) are used for urgent communication, (2) are checked more often, (3) are likely to be used by others who wish to contact the user urgently, and (4) are likely to lead to a quicker response. Despite the increasing centrality of urgency in everyday communication in the digital age, researchers and practitioners lack reliable methods to measure chronemic urgency in populations. The findings provide initial indications of levels of chronemic urgency in the US population’s everyday digital communication and create a foundation to better understand contemporary temporal phenomena.

Digital Integration into the Nigerian Educational System: Challenges and Prospects

In the last ten years, there have been conscious attempts by every nation to integrate digital tools into their educational system especially at the tertiary level. Nigeria is no exception. The policymakers in Nigeria at the federal and state levels have felt the need to integrate Information Communication Technology (ICT) in their educational policies. It is felt that in this globalized world the country must embrace digital technology to enhance support teaching and learning environment. It is the belief that in the present globalized world every nation should embrace digital technology to be competitive and also have knowledge-based society as well as information society or as Castells, (1996) has put it “Network Society” and also Perevozchikova, et.al. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic has also made it imperative that countries should advance towards e-learning. The future of education is therefore intertwined with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). The Nigerian government has realized that the new normal or post-COVID-19 pandemic environment has made the traditional method of teaching and learning outmoded. It is therefore in this regard that most policymakers in Nigeria are advocating an advance towards ICT hence there is what we can call paradigm-shift in terms of teaching and learning in Nigeria now. This paper discusses the Nigerian guidelines on digital education highlighting the challenges and the prospects of digital education. It concludes that digital education must be embraced because the post-COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to continue with the traditional mode of teaching/learning.

PROVIDING OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE: ECONOMIC AND LEGAL ASPECTS

In the conditions of the information economy development and the transition to the sixth technological order, innovative changes are occurred in the social organization of society, a network society is formed, and innovative knowledge and technologies are the key to progressive development. Innovations become a factor of economic development and ensure the transition from one technological order to another. At the same time, great importance in the development of scientific, technical and innovative activity belongs to the state, which is a key institution that forms the rules of the game on the basis of the development of regulatory legal support and funding of the science, stimulating the development of innovative entrepreneurship, creating the appropriate socio-economic conditions for highly qualified prospective scientific staff. Under such conditions, it becomes relevant to study the current state of scientific, technical and innovative activity of Ukraine based on the study of international rankings and analysis of domestic information sources, as well as analysis of existing forecasts of the evolution of the number of researchers. It is found out that there are negative tendencies of science development in Ukraine, which are caused by significant reduction of science funding, decline of prestige of scientific work in society, significant volumes of emigration of perspective highly qualified scientists due to insufficient material stimulation, physical and moral deterioration of the scientific and technical base, the lack of strategy of innovative development, the lack of support and understanding by the government, imperfect legal regulation. The modern legal and regulatory base for scientific, technical and innovative activity is investigated, which includes a number of legislative, regulatory and departmental documents, concepts and programs. It is found out that the development of science and innovation depends on the state scientific and technical policy, as well as on measures in the field of entrepreneurship support, especially the creation of favorable conditions for the development of innovative entrepreneurship.

BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society

This study focuses on the BTS sensation, examining how three entities – digital networks, the K-pop industry, and fandom – have engaged in the production of an alternative global culture. Based on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of this rising cultural act, the current study pays attention to the dialectical interaction of digital transformation and cultural subjectivization in the contemporary music ecosystem. By integrating Manuel Castells’ notion of the network society into Stuart Hall’s articulation of cultural resistance, I consider BTS as a counter-hegemonic cultural formation from the periphery within the network society. I also argue that the BTS phenomenon has not only unveiled the ideological dimension of Korean cultural formations, but has also proposed new possibilities of non-western and peripheral societies and subjects in the globally networked cultural sphere.

Open Innovation during Web Surfing: Topics of Interest and Rejection by Latin American College Students

The university is currently involved in complex processes of open innovation through permanent dialogue with institutions and companies in the economic, social, and political fields. Professors, researchers, students, and other members of the institution take part in these processes. This is a phenomenon that has emerged in today’s network society due to digitalization and globalization. It is therefore essential, in this context of open innovation, to know the behaviors, habits, consumption, or lifestyles of university staff and students to achieve, in the best and most effective way, integration of higher education in this new reality. How we interact and communicate with the surrounding people has transformed with wider access to the Internet and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially through smartphones and the use of apps and social networks (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc.). This digital revolution has reconfigured our interests, dispositions, and social participation. From the university field, knowing the interests of students who access the Internet is of vital importance to guide teaching methodologies, adapt content, facilitate communication processes, develop digital literacy practices, etc. The present research, focused on the Latin American sociocultural space, has a double objective: (GO1) to know which are the issues of most interest and consumption for university students; (GO2) to determine which issues they reject while they surf on the Internet. A quantitative research has been developed (n = 2482) based on the validated questionnaire COBADI®. The topics of greatest interest to the Latin American university students were, in this order: “use of social networks”, “news”, “music”, “education”, “work”, and “videos”. The fact that they put education in fourth place, as students, shows that it is not a high priority in their use of the network. On the opposite side, those that show more rejection are “celebrity journalism”, “online games”, and “pornography”. Among their topics of rejection is also “politics”, which is not prioritized by university students. These topics have been presented in different proportions according to the country analyzed, depending on their specific social and political circumstances, and have experienced a different evolution from 2012 to 2019—the time covered by the study.

Narrativas e políticas de um sertão e suas vidas severinas

Como no histórico poema de João Cabral de Melo Neto, ainda hoje muitos severinos – maridos, pais, filhos e irmãos – saem do Nordeste brasileiro, motivados pelo sonho de prosperar na labuta e encontrar um sentido para suas existências, fugindo de um lugar de morte e indo em busca de outra vida. Considerando esses fluxos migratórios em sua forma sazonal, o presente texto é fruto de dissertação de mestrado que buscou problematizar os encontros dos moradores do semiárido do estado de Sergipe com as novidades e vicissitudes que o trabalho desses homens lhes propiciou e as alterações que produziu na vida do lugar e das pessoas. Para tanto, são apresentados fragmentos narrativos que buscam ilustrar alguns aspectos do cotidiano e dos processos sócio-históricos experimentados no lugar e pelas pessoas que nele moram ou moraram. Ademais, e especialmente, destaca-se a importância das mulheres severinas, que na sua potente capacidade de reinventar a vida em meio às adversidades, alargaram sua rede de sociabilidade.

Management of Hospital Admissions for Checkpoint Inhibitor Immune-Related Adverse Events at a Regional Cancer Center

In Brief The use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in oncology has surged over the past decade and is projected to continue increasing for years to come. With the forecasted rise of immunotherapy use, it is now more important than ever to ensure the safety of patients who are receiving these agents. The toxicity profiles of immunotherapy agents are vastly different from traditional cytotoxic chemotherapies. Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) can lead to life-threatening outcomes if not treated appropriately. Incidence of severe irAEs (grade 3 or 4, which may require hospitalization) varies across publications, and minimal data are available to indicate what percentage of hospital admissions of immunotherapy-treated patients are due to irAEs. Determining this figure may clarify the actual hospitalization burden of irAEs on hospital systems. In addition, evaluating health systems’ clinical management of irAEs can uncover areas of improvement in quality of care for immunotherapy treated patients. In June 2018, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released guidelines on the management of irAEs. St. Luke's Health System used these guidelines to evaluate where the health system consistently met these benchmarks and identify areas of improvement.

Man in a network society

Today we are not talking about criticism of the traditional image of man, but about the end of faith in human exceptionalism. The human rights movement is recognized as a form of logo-centrism and is shifting towards the protection of the rights of women, children, the disabled, prisoners, migrants and other minorities. Voices are heard in defense of the rights of animals and non-human beings with artificial intelligence (a pair of robots have already obtained citizenship rights); scientists are discussing the possibility of reconstructing human beings based on gene technology. A profound transformation of perceptions about man is taking place in the models of the new network globalization, which replaces the liberal and conservative projects of the unity of mankind. The development of PR technology, which dealt a blow to the ideals of individual freedom and democracy in civil society, has turned man into a controlled being. The order of a global network society is no longer determined by human criteria of good and evil, but by information and financial flows. The digital revolution in work and entertainment, education and culture, as well as economics and politics has led to the creation of many digital counterparts, while man himself, deprived of the protection of the state and society, has found himself in a situation of anomie and total loneliness. Thus, transhumanism is no longer a mental experiment of marginal philosophy, but a post-human stage of civilization development. Discussions about the future of a network society, artificial intelligence and human construction based on gene technologies should not be perceived as intellectual entertainment, which free minds have been exposed to in recent years. They should not be neglected, because the more scenarios of possible development will be created and calculated, the better humanity will respond to the next crisis.

Особенности социокультурной миссии высшего образования в период цифровой трансформации общества

The article claims as an object of research a variety and a multi-faceted character of a definition "a sociocultural mission of the higher education", which has its value and standard structure with the social positions corresponding to it. The research objective is as follows: to identify a special role of the socio-cultural mission of the higher education as a prevailing one and being implemented through acceptance of values in the course of socio-cultural interaction of all actors of education. The methodology of the research is the principle of social orientation of the higher education formulated and revealed by the author. This principle provides inter-conditionality and mutual enrichment of social and communicative interaction, on the one hand, enlarging its opportunities due to inclusion of external actors in the educational environment, on the other hand, due to enrichment and development of society through reproduction of socio-cultural values by people of a new formation and creative modern way of thinking among youth. The principle of social orientation of the higher education redefines creating of a social capital of the educational organization, promoting transfer and reproduction of knowledge, the culture and values of society in a format: human – knowledge - society. The main result of a research is to determine the features of a socio-cultural mission of the higher education in the period of society’s digital transformation influencing ways of transfer and use of information providing formation of new type of social interaction called "network society". The results of a research can be used in the organization of educational and extra- curricular activity in higher education institution, study guides and lecture courses for teachers, in the organization of youth socially oriented activities.

Globalization processes in the sphere of socioeconomic and environmental relations

The article examines the impact of the fourth information revolution on society, the formation of a certain social and economic system as a result of the influence of the latest information and communication technologies and changes in the human habitat. Globalization processes in the economy have become possible due to information technologies. The latter ensures the movement of capital to any continent, leveling state borders, sovereignty, the national identity of peoples. Business entities, due to the emergence of electronic media, have become able to introduce new forms and methods of economic activity that contribute to the optimization of sales of goods and services and the efficiency of production organization processes. Due to the transformation processes in the field of social and economic relations of the network society, the ability to respond quickly to changes in the world politics stances and markets of basic economic resources has been updated. As a result, the network society represents economy virtualization, the introduction of e-business, global online commerce. The change in the conditions and nature of management and labor was influenced by Internet media, which gives grounds to characterize the network society as a society of services.

ТОПОЛОГИЯ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ КОММУНИКАЦИЙ В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ СЕТЕВОГО ОБЩЕСТВА: МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ АНАЛИЗА И ПРАКТИКИ

The purpose of the article is to study the topology of political communications in the conditions of the formation of a network society. The topological context of the study of political communications involves an appeal to the basic concepts of topology (space, form, time), as well as the phenomena of morphogenesis and homeomorphism. The main content of the article includes the study of a number of theoretical and methodological approaches of political topology in the communicative and communication perspectives. The author is based on the application of methods of content analysis, discourse analysis, system approach, network approach to identify topological aspects of political communications.As a result, the analysis carried out by the author showed that significant changes in the political space are taking place in the network society on the basis of technological and humanitarian innovations (including under the influence of informatization, networking, digitalization), as well as forms and practices of political communications are being transformed. An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of political communications allows us to expand the range of their research.

Управление политическим контентом в онлайн-пространстве современных государств: как Twitter не позволил Д. Трампу выиграть президентские выборы в 2020 г.?

The networked society is permeated with processes generated within numerous horizontal structures of the public sphere in the online space. An empirical study based on network analysis and graph visualization methodology allowed us to understand why D. Trump, using the same political communication strategy on Twitter that allowed him to win in 2015, lost the 2020 US Presidential Election. Who and how transformed the political content created by D. Trump's team; who became the influencer that changed and destroyed the discourse field originally created to support D. Trump in the second term campaign? The empirical data (a continuous sample of network data amounted to 2 million messages), which we used to constructs and analyze the discourse fields, comprises the messages published by ordinary users, supporters, opponents and D. Trump's team on Twitter within the period from March 1, 2020 to October 30, 2020. The study showed that D. Trump's second election campaign in 2020 was also based on network populism. However, the “negative information background” (Covid-19, Black Lives Matter) split the discursive fields he formed, which eventually resulted in ban from online platforms and election defeat. The technologies D. Trump used in his first election campaign, and which led him to the US presidency, actually became a potent weapon in the hands of his opponents in the second election campaign.