My activities in web science

Publications:

Using Social Aspects of Modern Information Systems in Analytical Work of a Specialist in International Affairs: Coursebook (in Russian). St. Petersburg University Press, 2009.

The UGC-based information systems are considered as modern ones in this coursebook. The book is about ways of using such a kind of information systems for investigations of international affairs.

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International Cooperation for Humanitarian Aspects of Internet Development: Coursebook (in Russian). St. Petersburg University Press, 2009.

The book is devoted to the main topics of the course "New information technologies (Internet)" that is read for the students of the program "Applied Information Science in the Sphere of International Relations" at the St. Petersburg State University School of International Relations.

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The Role of International Sci-Tech Cooperation in the Global Distribution of Public Computer Networks in: Trends, Prospects & Challenges of Globalization. Ed. by H. Sadri and D. Katsy. St. Petersburg University Press, 2009. P. 95-101.

International sci-tech cooperation had objective causes: development of technologies, the need to operate and control a complex global infrastructure, a social aspect (the appeal of the broad community of Internet engineers), and, finally, commercialization. It was largely under the influence of these objective factors that sci-tech cooperation evolved. It was the development of network technologies and their global spread that predetermined the forms and trends of international sci-tech cooperation rather than the other way around.

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External environment of the global system of international relations (in Russian) in: International Trends. 2005. Vol.3. No.3.

World information system with Internet as constitutive factor is considered as an element of external environment of the global system of international relations which is situated in another type of space.

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