OBSERVATION SOCIETY: PSYCHOTRONIC AND INFORMATIONAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPONS AS CONSTRUCTS OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE

Abstract

The discourse of information society, being initiated in the middle of the last century, marked the beginning of the theory ofneo-coloniaiism, neototalitarian trends in the modern political process and in the beginning of this century moved to the theory of society monitoring, which delineates the difference between security companies and the state information resources of modern companies regulate the political activities of very different groups, sometimes with controversial or socially dangerous interests. The political science perspective of the concept of "observation society" implies a conceptual expansion of the terminological load of the meaning of information war and confrontation, since it is a question of purposeful transformation of the information space by political actors whose goal is to provide the desired types of political behavior and political participation.