Co-awareness in the Russian Society in the period of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Aim. Is to conceptualize the notion of “co-awareness” in the context of studying the new social reality of an information and network society (using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example).Methodology. The main scope of the research consists in the analysis of the co-awareness phenomenon using methods of content analysis, discourse analysis, system analysis of sources on the problems of citizens’ awareness, the interaction of the state and citizens.Results. The analysis showed that the concept of “co-awareness” is universal and applicable in various areas of social and humanitarian knowledge. It serves as an equivalent of general awareness, as well as integration of information and human activity, suggesting a change in human behavior in the process of receiving and assimilating the information.Research implications. The article summarizes the new data on the subject under study amid the Covid-19 pandemic; the concept of co-awareness was introduced into scientific discourse. This category can be used as an assessment of the potential for “feedback” between the state and citizens.

Keywords

• information and network society
• the Covid-19 pandemic
• co-awareness
• information
• state
• citizens