Mikhaylyonok O.M., Malyseva G.A. Digital reboot of society: socio-political aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In: The world after the COVID-19 pandemic: politics, security, economy and culture-forecasts of the future through the prism of the present: Materials of the XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference of the A. A. Samokhin Interuniversity Scientific Discussion Club Expert, Krasnodar, February 19-20, 2021. - Krasnodar: Kuban State University, 2021. - P. 34-38.

Abstract

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sociopolitical domain is analyzed in terms of two factors. The pandemic is viewed as a new stage of global digital transformation and simultaneously as a network phenomenon whose manifestations in the context of digitalization determine the new quality of the communicative space. Under the impact of the crisis engendered by the pandemic, virtual connections and forms of social organization not only gain a competitive advantage over the traditional patterns of physical communication but must also be evaluated in terms of their political effects in the system of power-society relations. The forcing of the digital transition produces multiple social and political risks at the global and national levels. Particular importance is attached to the issues of information and digital sovereignty and the preservation of the political and cultural autonomy of the nation state against the background of the global spread of universalist technocratism as a new form of geopolitical pressure in the digital post-pandemic era.