Effects of the networking of social relationships within an activity-based approach to scientific research

Abstract

According to the author’s position, modern society and its social determinants have qualitatively new features, which allows identifying the information and digital, electronic and digital, and information and network format of modern civilization characterized by digitalization, networking, mobility, and complexity. The digitalization of the society generated and enriched scientific sociological issues with new terminology. The terms “cybersociology”, “sociology of the Internet”, “sociology of online communities”, and “sociology of cyberculture” appeared. The subject field was supplemented with new interdisciplinary areas such as digital practices, sociological analysis of digital data and digital media, and critical and public digital sociology. Global networking expands the horizons of research in digital sociology, providing sociologists with truly big data that can be studied and interpreted to monitor social communications.