Fedorchenko S.N.

The article’s primary purpose was to identify relevant scientific approaches, models, and scenarios for digitalizing the space of contemporary policy. To solve the work tasks, we used discourse analysis, critical analysis and predictive scripting. According to the research results, the authors could identify the essential effects of current technological transformations that ensure the close interweaving of the traditional political space and the digital environment into a single digital space of politics, claiming to form an independent phygital socio-technical reality. Among the key areas of transformation of the space of traditional politics, we can include the intensive digital algorithmization of the socio-political sphere of the life of the modern state and society, the emergence of digital intellectual actants, as well as alternative subjects of digital politics, to which we primarily include global technology corporations. Based on the study results, the authors describe a scenario for forming hybrid state-technological regimes that combine the resources of political power, digital infrastructures and technologies into a single subject of socio-political governance of a new type.

This study aims to determine the extent of the substantive nature of the dependence of contemporary state sovereignty on technological development in the field of artificial intelligence and neural network technologies, as well as to identify new socio-political challenges to Russia’s state sovereignty in the context of global digital technological transformations. As a methodological lens, the method of critical discourse analysis of thematic academic studies was chosen, as well as the method of expert interviews. This made it possible to more deeply reveal the substantive features of influence of artificial intelligence technologies and neural network algorithms’ development processes on the contemporary state sovereignty parameters. Based on the results of the study, by the aggregation of the results obtained, the authors concluded that a whole range of challenges to the sovereignty of the contemporary state related to technological development in the digital sphere has formed, as well as there is the high influence of digital technological development processes on the state sovereignty of Russia. The main challenge for our country is the thesis that a state unable to create independent and competitive technologies, products, and solutions in the digital sphere will inevitably be in direct technological dependence on other states, which directly affects the ability to provide its own sovereignty and independence.

The purpose of the work is to identify the features of modern political ideologies associated with digital technological transformations. The remythologizing approach and L. Althusser’s refined approach to ideology are used as a methodological lens. Digital technology corporations are considered as specific intellectual ideological devices that form the conditions for digital transformations of most modern political ideologies. It was discovered that such a polyvalent phenomenon as the ideologization of the meme is becoming important in these changes. An analysis of cybercommunism, cyberlibertarianism, cyberanarchism, cyberfascism and neoreactionism led to the conclusion that the digital environment contributes to the remythologization of political consciousness, in which more flexible mythological constructs, rather than strict ideological dogmas, become popular. On the one hand, the key features of modern political ideologies that are changing under the influence of digital technological transformations are revealed, on the other hand, their similarity with classical ideological constructs is revealed. It is shown that all these ideologies consider digital media and technologies as tools for qualitative socio-political transformations in the future.

The main objective of this study is to identify the key challenges that contemporary Russia is facing in the process of digital sovereignty in the national digital space of socio-political communication. The article uses the principles of critical discourse analysis of academic literature and the expert survey method as a methodological lens. Based on the results of the analysis of academic discourse, the authors identified a range of key challenges accompanying the activities of contemporary states in achieving their digital sovereignty. The authors come to the conclusion that external and internal factors that create conditions for key challenges to digital sovereignty and digital sovereignty are not simply interconnected, but are capable of reinforcing each other, in critical cases passing the point of no return and provoking the opposite process — digital desovereignization. Based on the analysis of the results of the expert study, the key challenges of digital sovereignty were clarified, and those challenges that are characteristic of the processes of sovereignty of the digital space of socio-political communications in contemporary Russia were identified. These challenges are closely related to the need to determine our own path of digital development and to create a national model of digital sovereignty that would reflect Russian national specifics. Also, in the aspect of analyzing the challenges specific to Russia, based on the integration of expert assessments, the need to form value and semantic attitudes among specialists in the field of digitalization, as well as the formation of knowledge, competencies, skills and abilities adequate to modern realities among representatives of all branches and levels of government responsible for developing policies and strategies for digital sovereignty, ensuring the legal framework for the country's digital development processes, as well as for the implementation of strategies within the framework of specific applied models and projects of digital sovereignty is highlighted. The paper also shows the importance and criticality of ensuring the pro-social nature of digital sovereignty processes, which otherwise could create the potential for socio-political destabilization and act as a factor in the growth of mistrust and dissatisfaction with the activities of government institutions on the part of the population.