Социальные сети и сетевые сообщества информационного общества

The study of the problems of information society development, social patterns, trends of further development is becoming an important area of research interest and determines the relevance of the theme, as well as theoretical and practical importance of study of the information society in Russia. The methodological base of the research is the structural-functional approach, allowing to consider the society as a self-developing system, and also elements of dialectical and synergetic approaches. As an empirical base used the results of a longitudinal study of media communities of Russia on the example of a virtual community of Internet resources: www.rufa.ru, various communities of the Russian Internet and network of online communities, social networks, Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, etc. is conducted by the author in the period 2005-2013.