Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


technology

Megatrends and mythologems of artificial intelligence topics in Western scientific discourse

Introduction. For fifty years, the topic of artificial intelligence has remained leading within a wide range of scientific fields. Theoretical analysis. Preliminary analysis of the Scopus database results from a rating of publication activity, in which social sciences occupy insider positions along with computer sciences and some other areas. From the 60s of the past century to the present, there has been an exponential growth of scientific publications containing the label “artificial intelligence” in titles, abstracts and keywords.

The Media in the Network Society: Outlines of a New Ruling Elite

The article is devoted to the development of media technologies and their media and their role in the creation, the functioning of modern society and the implementation of process management. The processes of communication, have taken on social significance, along with the information, allow to speak about modern society not as information, but as a network, meaning that this concept is wider.

Technology: Determination of Essence and Functions

The article deals with the essence, form and structure of technology and the role of the same in the society from a perspective of humanitarian and philosophical discourse. The author states that technology, while having activity-related nature, is one of the modern specialized forms of activity development. Modern technologies related to the socio-cultural context of the epoch determine social importance of technique.

Myths Inside of a Religious Discourse in Russia: Technology of a Deconstruction

Myths in the religious environment are the effective tool of decentralization of management, and also manipulation with consciousness of frank believers. The religious environment and the developed institute of imperous attitudes suffers from it. Development of information technologies is accompanied by perfection of mythological designs which even more often get into a basis of social programs of religious association and, that the most terrible, «wash away» a basis of the doctrine.

Evolutionary Development of Social Norms: from Ascriptiveness to Descriptiveness

The article is devoted to the analysis of such properties of normativity as ascriptivity and descriptivity, as well as the principle of the evolutionary development of norms. The article defines the content of the concept of “norm”, identifies two main interpretations of it: as a combination of a standard set of properties and as a sample of desirable behavior. It is argued that the second interpretation forms the idea of social norms.

Planning of the Cadets’ Patriotic Military Training Technology in a System of Higher Military Education

There have been studied educational activity planning and its technology. There has been made an attempt to define the nature and features of cadets’ patriotic military training technology planning in the system of higher military education. There have been suggested the stages of patriotic military training pedagogical technology planning.

From the subject to the agent in social and humanitarian discourses of the 21st century

Introduction. The article is focused on the problem of tuning research optics in the directions of vision and understanding a subject, society and the whole world. Since the Age of Enlightenment, the idea of subjectivity has been the foundation for such optics. In the 21st century the place of the subject is claimed by multiple agents that do not have a human nature. Theoretical analysis.

On the place of the mythology of technology in contemporary digital studies

Introduction. The article is devoted to philosophical reflection on the role of technique and technology in the existence of a modern man. The authors hypothesize that the technosphere is subject to mythologization to the same extent as other essentially significant human spheres. In this regard, the need to study the process of mythologization of technology is actualized. Theoretical analysis.