Under the heading "Socio-economic aspects of the Information Society" in the article by Konopatskaya Ekaterina and Natalia Svechnikova from Samara State Economic University the interdependence of human capital development processes and the information society are studied by constructing econometric models.

The article by Anna Gorbacheva from Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, stating that currently there is a new image of man – “clicking person” and examining the impact of converging technologies on human behavior, opens the traditional and popular heading of the journal “Man in the Information Society”. Emerging social networks, on the one hand, simplify the process of mass communication, but on the other hand they have formed new opportunities to influence public opinion.

Based on the analysis of social network users’ behavior Evgeni Shpak from the Omsk Dostoevsky State University concludes that social networks can be an effective tool for information influence to be used by the governments.

Under the heading “Culture in the Information Society” the two articles are represented. The article by Galina Shapovalova from Vladivostok University of Economics and Service highlights the problems of preservation and rights for access to digital cultural heritage in World Wide Web, stresses the importance of harmonizing national and international standards to increase the accessibility of digital cultural heritage objects. Research by Irina Dashibalova from the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude) is devoted to the problem of accessibility to the scientific community a large base of film documents on Buryatia, the Irkutsk Region and Trans-Baikal, which are the historic residence zones for Buryats. Creation of the electronic catalog of movie sources representing the Buryats expands methodical arsenal of visual aids, also due to such cartographic tools as GIS, training materials and electronic encyclopedias.

In the article by Dmitriy Kaminchenko from Nizhni Novgorod Lobachevsky State University the significance of social media as applied to the area of mind manipulation is considered. The author examines representation of the order value typical for the modern Russian society.

Alexander Mamakov and Larissa Pererva from Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service analyzed the information security problems in relation to marine transport in their article placed under the heading “Information Society Technologies”. It is argued that marine security in seaports waters and near to them is an important national objective.

In the article by Olga Vershinskaya of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Science (Moscow) the experience of European cooperation in the framework of COST Actions – research, in which an important role is given to the study of the social impact of information, is presented.