The creation of digital network platforms is accompanied by an ambiguous process of sociotechnical convergence, during which certain hazards arise as factors that destabilize the functioning of a digital platform, and risks as an expectation of the occurrence of these events.

   The purpose of the study is to assess the level of conversion of the sociotechnical convergence hazards into the corresponding risks.

   The research methodology is based on the ecosystem approach and the concept of platform research, supplemented by the authors with the ideas of sociotechnical convergence.

   To study the conversion of the sociotechnical convergence hazards into the risks of digitalization, the method of empirical verification based on a representative sociological survey was applied. The
result of the taxonomic division was the classification of hazards in such subject areas as (hazard of failure); digital surveillance (hazard of excessive digital surveillance); digital morality (hazard of decision-making by artificial intelligence); digital identification (hazard of identification error); digital privacy (hazard of unauthorized use of personal data); digital communication (hazard of virtualization of social contacts); digital accessibility (hazard of digital inequality); digital clusters (hazard of social network segmentation); digital competence (hazard of digital outsider). The authors come to the conclusion that not all hazards are converted into risks in the same way. Strongly expressed explicit risks are observed as a result of converting the hazard of unauthorized use of personal data. Medium-expressed explicit risks appear in case of hazard of failure of digital platforms, hazard of decision-making by artificial intelligence, hazard of identification error, hazard of digital inequality. Weakly expressed explicit risks are typical for the conversion of the hazard of excessive digital surveillance and the hazard of virtualization of social contacts. The hazard of social network segmentation and the hazard of digital outsider are converted into implicit risks.

   The aim of this paper is to define the meaning of perfectionism as a personal quality in online recruitment, from employers’ standpoint.

   Job offers were searched on hh.ru with the help of the keyword ‘perfectionism’ and served as material for the research.

   The main areas of professional activity appeared to be information technologies, marketing and management in thoseт areas.

   The findings show that perfectionism is viewed by employers through the angle of professional motivation as a positive and wanted social quality in job seekers, which is placed in “Requirements” in the majority of job offers. Perfectionismт is viewed by employers as an idealistic image of a worker and is referred to three fields: professional activities, personality and communication. Analysis of associated personal qualitiesт gives evidence of immediate semantic perfectionist correlates: ambitiousness, professionalism, scrupulousness and analytical thinking. In a wider meaning, perfectionism is considered as a social and personal characteristic of an employee, both efficient and initiative, wearing a dress code specified by internal corporate rules, open-minded, internally motivated and capable of fulfilling duties within the established deadline, ready to suggest effective approaches to organizing business processes and to work overtime, completing extensive assignments, to work more than is mentioned in work duties; perfectionism characterizes a loyal employee willing to participate at full capacity in developing the organization, to efficiently interact with internal and external communicants and to actively contribute to organization performance and competitiveness.

   The processes of digitalization of modern society are changing the significant ratio of its spheres and structures, bringing to the fore the communicative space, which appears as a system of communicative statuses of people, groups, organizations occupying a particular place in the structure of relevant relations. This circumstance determines the attempt to study this phenomenon in its application to human communicative interactions, made in the article from the standpoint of the theory of communicative action. Identity processes and alienation processes, both generating and limiting, subordinating the communicative activity of the individual, are considered as the basis for the emergence of the communicative status of the individual. Its contradictory nature is embodied in the transformations of the subject into the object of communicative influences and vice versa. In the course of the analysis undertaken within the framework of the activity approach, the essence and structure of the communicative status in the unity of its three elements are revealed: the communicative position of the individual; its communicative position (orientation); prestige as an assessment of a communicative position. The interacting elements of the status constitute its objective and subjective sides, localized simultaneously in two dimensions: digital virtual communicative space and real communicative space. The emerging duality of status is its most important characteristic in relation to the digital society. The peculiarities of the interaction of the objective and subjective in the digital space are revealed by analyzing, on the one hand, the phenomenon of a “digital double” created as a result of generalization of indicators of a person’s “digital footprint” regardless of his desire or unwillingness, on the other hand, the purposeful formation of an individual’s “avatar”. The generalized assessment of the communicative status of the individual leads to the conclusion that the characteristics of this phenomenon reflect the processes of individualization characteristic of digital society and indicate the desire of the individual to independently build his own communicative trajectory, the maximum realization of his capabilities as a subject of interactions.

   Insufficient conceptualization regarding the analysis of social risks of the educational space digitalization in universities and the ambiguity of their initial prerequisites necessitate the study of this problem. The article analyzes the prerequisites for social risks of the educational space digitalization in regional universities, based on the provisions on their normativity for modern social reality, transformation into a permanent factor of the functioning of complex sociobiotechnical systems, ambivalence of risk, the need for risk genesis process regulation. The well-established statement “risk = uncertainty” is considered, and the author′s own vision of the social risks of the educational space digitalization in regional universities is formulated. It is emphasized that the process of digitalization leads to mass reproduction of uncertainties and, as a consequence, social risks at all levels of social self-organization, including universities, which are open to the external environment. The author describes the specific uncertainties that digitalization creates at the level of the education system and individual universities. The author’s definition of the social risks of the educational space digitalization in a regional university is given as the awareness of its actors of the probability of events that determine the deviation from their goals due to the introduction of digital technologies and encouraging subjects to take actions that do not guarantee the achievement of the planned result. The necessity of risk genesis management as a regulatory influence combining administrative regulation and self-regulation of subjects and counterparties of the educational space of universities in order to identify and use positive opportunities of social risks of digitalization and exclude negative consequences is substantiated. The idea of “risk making” is proposed as an activity to identify and use the constructive potential of social risks of the educational space digitalization and minimize their negative consequences.

   The event industry is currently undergoing a period of active social change and technological innovation driven by the approach of the fourth industrial revolution and the advent of new methods of data processing by artificial intelligence. This could provide the meeting industry with new management capabilities related to the ability to predict and program visitor behavior based on the analysis of extremely large amounts of data about their behavior, thinking and preferences. However, event activities are based on creating for the visitor such a spatio-temporal period that he perceives as unique. This makes event technologies an effective tool for achieving commercial, communication or image goals of an organization. The specificity of creating this uniqueness is largely related to the socio-communicative and aesthetic-axiological aspects of human life. Therefore, for the sustainable development of an event organization, it is important not only to keep pace with advanced technological developments, but also to take into account anthropological specifics, the influence of “smart” processes on which has not been sufficiently studied, and potential risks need to be clarified.

   The purpose of the study is to assess how the event activity will change if its content fully corresponds to the life habits and behavior of the client. To achieve this goal, the principles of systemic and comparative analysis were used.

   The empirical base of the study is the data of the survey of respondents, as well as the results of previous studies in this area. The study is of interest to specialists in the field of sociology, anthropology and management, as well as to those in the event industry.

   This work is devoted to the analysis of the sociological and legal aspects of the implementation of authentication in social networks through passport data. In the article, along with authentication, the uses of biometric data, as well as the features of Russian legislation in the sphere of personal data, are considered. The positive and negative aspects of introducing authentication by passport data in social networks are shown and the psychological and legal aspectsare reveled. The authors analyzed all the features of authentication, the complexity of application and the impact of this innovation on the prevention of deviant behavior among the adolescent age group. The object of the research is authentication by passport data in social networks.

   The subject of the research is psychological and legal aspects of establishing authentication based on passport data.

   The methodological and theoretical basis of the research is made up of particular and general scientific approaches to the study of this topic, formal logical and comparative methods, as well as methods of structural analysis were used.

   In the course of the study, conclusions about the main features of storing citizens’ data, the complexity of storing data of Russians on foreign Internet platforms, conclusions on the need to filter information for minors were drawn, and also considered the phenomenon of deviant behavior among adolescents and the influence of information in social networks on their consciousness.

   Sociocultural, ecological, economic circumstances in which the constantly changing world finds itself persistently demand the emergence of new directions and subjects of research in the educational sphere.

   The purpose of the article is to identify promising vectors for studying the space of lifelong education.

   The following research methods were used: a) analysis of a combination of terms that combine philosophical, socio-cultural, economic and educational meanings; b) analysis of the author’s pedagogical experience in the formats of formal, non-formal and spontaneous education; c) an expert survey conducted online in October 2021; d) content analysis of detailed answers to the questions offered to respondents. As a result, the article outlines previously not obvious sources for creating an interdisciplinary methodological basis, the appearance of which can be predicted at the junctions of various fields of knowledge, in practice-oriented research attempts to implement the ideas of transdisciplinarity. The author’s research diagnoses fundamentally new methodological impulses that exist in science and modern philosophy when considering continuous knowledge as a vital attribute of a modern person. The possibilities that are hidden in paradoxical, at first glance, combinations and at the intersections of previously completely independent knowledge spheres are discussed. This is important for solving the problem of preserving anthropic qualities, which is especially prominent in the course of the chaotic development of learning systems that integrate human nature and artificial intelligence.
   The scientific novelty of the work is made up of conclusions about research methods that are most suitable for the formation of new psychological and pedagogical knowledge about permanent education.

   The proposed article discusses issues related to the daily life of Moscow students and their leisure, the relevance of which in the context of the development of the information society is associated with increased attention of the state to the educational component of modern educational systems. Moreover, in the conditions of modern realities of the development of the information society, and, consequently, information culture, the format of leisure becomes a significant factor in the socialisation of the individual.

   As a goal, the authors of the article identified the analysis of various forms of leisure activities of Moscow students through their questionnaires, which was designed to outline vectors for further research of the place and role of study, family relations and forms of spending free time in a student’s life.

   Special attention is paid to modern forms of leisure for students, such as: spending time on the Internet, visiting experimental theaters and cinemas, watching talk shows and entertainment programs, visiting immersive shows, participating in modern youth organisations, etc. Summarising the results of the study, it was concluded that at the moment no more than 20 % of the surveyed Moscow students choose “modern” forms of leisure activities. The conducted research revealed the students’ clear preferences in spending their free time, as well as their value orientations.

   A review of the monograph “Public administration in a digital society: to a new social contract” is presented. The book under review is devoted to the development of a scientifically based concept of the social contract of the digital society. According to the authors, the modern period of state development, the period of searching for better and more targeted forms of interaction between the authorities and the population significantly expands the possibilities of mass participation of the population in state governance using information and telecommunication technologies. The authors make the conclusion that humanity is in the widest range of options – from strengthening the tendencies of the state, whose supervisory functions may be too total in relation to the person, to digital consensus democracy, when citizens are able to reach agreements on a wide range of socially significant tasks. The book proposes the use of digital network platforms as communication platforms that ensure the establishment of a certain level of trust between citizens and the population. This is a research publication, that introduces the government and municipal employees, representatives of science, education and of public organisations and political parties, all interested in the range of modern problems of social development in the context of the digital transformation of most public spheres and the public administration transformation.