Communication in virtual space: current approaches and political influences

The amazing rise of information technologies over the last few decades and the spectacular ascension of the Internet have generated a veritable avalanche of academic studies. The purpose of the article lies in the presentation of a panorama of the investigations devoted to media-communication action in the virtual space. Developing the acceptance of the Internet as the largest artery on which information circulates, the researchers presented in their studies the multiple aspects of the impressive changes produced by the evolution of the Internet (sociology of the Internet, the influence of the Internet on the development of society, the opportunities of the cybersphere, the audience of digital journalism and other aspects of it many cultural, social and political ramifications). The article refers to a series of studies in the field, examines the main directions of academic research related to computer-mediated communication and the impact produced by the Internet on current journalism, highlights the contribution in clarifying the particularities of media communication in the virtual space of various authors, including from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, reveals how the characteristics and social impact of the Internet have been analyzed and argued at the current stage.