Expanding the Scope and Area of Academic Scientific Research in the Information Age

Abstract

The topic refers to the analysis of the current process of expanding the scope and area of scientific research. Internet technologies have changed the political, economic and social reality. Today, security mechanisms became a combined target. The data indicate that the challenges related to unpredictable dangers led to the need to make serious socio-political decisions at all levels, including the need to implement political, legal, economic, military-defense and social measures, to develop new normative regulation systems. Accordingly, cyberspace problems emphasized the role of researchers in various fields of science and expanded the scope and area of academic scientific research. It has become urgent to increase the involvement of Georgian researchers in the ongoing scientific-research processes in this direction. At the same time, there was a need to clarify the use of terms by Georgian researchers in the study of cyberspace problems in the socio-political context. In particular, after the transformation of cyber security as a technical problem into its socio-political task, into cyber security, i.e. when the content of activities changes in order to avoid increased dangers, it is necessary to use the terms in the context of the field of social sciences, as the changes refer not only to activities related to security techniques, but also to human, socio-political activities of society and the state, planning and implementing socio-political events (policy development, concept, planning, etc.). Separation of this problem for research suits the needs of the current situation in social sciences. Accordingly, a specific contribution has been made to the research of strategic assessments of possible trends.