Power in the conditions of communicative risk-generation of network society

The research aims to identify the trends of transformation of power relations in the context of a risk-generating reality of network society, which forms a risk-generating space. The article examines the communicative dimension of modern society as a space for the formation and development of risk-generating conditions – states of uncertainty and instability. The structure of network communications provides high dynamics of risks, their mutual influence, which poses a challenge to the institution of power. The structure of the network itself outlines new contours of social existence and power relations, which is manifested in the increased role of virtual space, internet communications, and the subject’s involvement in network interactions: the institute of network leadership emerges, new network states are constructed, and new moral and ethical models of behavior arise. Scientific novelty lies in the following: transformations of power under the influence of network communications at the institutional, value, and subject-oriented levels have been identified. The research results in an understanding of the trends of transformation of communicative processes in the political reality under the conditions of the network structure of society, which forms a risk-generating space.