Network: Colonization of the Digital World

• Main Author: Slavomir Partycki
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 2018-11-01
• Series: Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи
• Online Access: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/ssms/article/view/11631/11921

The article emphasizes that today we are dealing with a fundamentally new vision of the world. Scientific interpretation does not have time for the dynamic development of practical solutions based on ICT, there is a shortage of specific concepts (sociological, philosophical) explaining the status of virtual reality. Therefore, the author thinks, it is important to consider the theoretical problems of the science of networks, which, as noted in the article, is an interdisciplinary one, genetically and functionally related to a number of natural, exact sciences, social sciences and humanities, including static physics, graph theory, matrix algebra, theory of chaos, cybernetics, communication theory, biology, medicine, sociology, economics. It is noted that this science faces serious tasks on the interpretation of the modern world, since we are dealing with the realization of the helplessness of classical science, which is not capable of giving satisfactory answers to a number of fundamental questions. It is emphasized that in the changes caused by the modern stage of the information revolution, science and technology play an increasingly important role. Moreover, technology (especially now, in the era of computerization), making life easier for a person, is also a source of creating a new reality, which for the first time in history exists outside of man. In these conditions, the article emphasizes, information fits into the non-material sphere, acquires the characteristic features of an alter-reality that has its own laws and principles of functioning. Author guesses that informationism is one of the main factors of the changes and development of the modern world and offers a characterization of this phenomenon.