INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT OF THE REGION AS A SYSTEM: ELEMENTS, RELATIONSHIPS, FACTORS
The problems of various approaches to determining the structure and characteristics of the information environment at the regional level are analyzed. Approaches to determining the nature of the category «information environment» are studied, and the possibility of using these approaches to develop methods and models for studying the information environment on an economic basis is considered. The author’s position focuses on the need to study the network interaction of regional subjects with a special status in the information field.