CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR RESEARCHING DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE ASPECT OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Abstract

The article discusses the basic concepts of mass media and national security, as well as the basic concepts that reveal the relationship between digital media and national security. The media space is a part of the information space and is the sphere of broadcasting of mass information, which is transmitted by subjects endowed by society with the powers and rights to convey information. Conceptual analysis of the mass media shows that the Internet has become a political phenomenon.

Nevertheless, spiteful individuals and organizations can use the distribution of information to threaten a country's sovereignty and national security by spreading false information through traditional and new mass media. The authors come to the conclusion that the conceptual foundations of the study of the relationship between digital media and national security are the following theories: the theory of social responsibility, the concept of social networks and various methodological approaches to understanding the essence of national security