V rabote A.G. Starikova dan analiz roli elity SMI i politicheskoy elity v politicheskom protsesse sovremennoy Rossii i, v chastnosti, sub"ektakh Yuzhnogo federal'nogo okruga. Ee znachitel'naya chast' otvoditsya problemam vzaimodeystviya etikh dvukh elit, a takzhe informatsionnym tekhnologiyam v SMI, ikh vozmozhnostyam vliyat' na obshchestvennoe mnenie, manipulirovat' soznaniem mass. Privodyatsya issledovaniya zarubezhnykh i rossiyskikh politologov, sotsiologov, psikhologov i zhurnalistov, zanimayushchikhsya etimi problemami, analiziruetsya deyatel'nost' vedushchikh mirovykh i rossiyskikh SMI v ispol'zovanii informatsionnykh tekhnologiy. Kniga budet polezna politologam, polittekhnologam, zhurnalistam, studentam, aspirantam i prepodavatelyam, zanimayushchimsya problemami elitologii i izuchayushchikh rol' informatsionnykh tekhnologiy v sovremennom politicheskom protsesse, voprosami formirovaniya obshchestvennogo mneniya.