Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes

If we look at the speed of the emergence of technical innovations, it seems that we live in an era of fulfilled plans and predictions. Artificial intelligence, automatic cashiers, electronic queues, digital educational courses on any topic, instant calculation of complex formulas, and translations between all languages, online consultations of doctors, and so on. It would seem that people's ability to manage themselves and the world is expanding, life is becoming easier and more comfortable, and hard work is leaving it. But at the same time, the acceleration of technology production and its complexity make visible the variability and unreliability of our knowledge of the world, limit our ability to manage things and rules surrounding us at work and at home, and force us to rely more often on expert knowledge of unknown origin.

The purpose of the Monitoring of Public Opinion Journal special issue is to explore how technology creates new opportunities and how this changes the boundaries of responsibility and its distribution between the agents of technological change, corporations, users, and the state, as well as to show the possibilities and limitations of social technology research.

The deadline for submissions is March 30, 2026.