ECONOMY 2.0 AND POLITICS 2.0 SPECIFICITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS (EUROPEAN EXAMPLE)

Abstract

The paper seeks to examine the specificity of social relations in the virtual media of social networks. The emphasis is put on the political and economic spheres of social interaction in the Internet. The analysis is based mainly on European material. The author concludes that the introduction of social networks in economic and political reality of Europe is extremely broad, and that the emerging social networks are diverse, but contradictory and complex.

Keywords

• social networks
• social ties
• web 2.0
• politics
• economy
• europe
• european union