The purpose of the article is to work out an informational model of an individual that describes their way of perceiving and processing information. The authors use the scholarly apparatus of engineering sciences. The article determines four levels of individual perception of information, namely, physical, emotional, intellectual and axiological. The process of recognizing external signals starts at the physical level, and normally is to run with immediate involvement of the axiological level. The model of individual perception of information is presented as a trigger capable of receiving external physical signals, recognizing them, and transforming them into information that is further broadcast to the environment via physical channels of perception. Distinguishing a signal among background noise is the first stage of individual perception of information. Processing this signal involves activating the emotional and/or intellectual levels of the consciousness, which, in their turn, can lead to long-term changes in the individual’s mind at the axiological level. The proposed model is illustrated by the example of Overtone windows, and is applied in studying causes and consequences of transmission from civilization of the word to civilization of the number and the digit. The authors state that signals and information may be used as tools of manipulating an individual if they constantly and deliberately overload the channels of perception, and eventually block the axiological level in the individual’s mind. The authors substantiate that transition form civilization of the word to civilization of the number and the digit will inevitably lead to degradation of the individual’s abilities to perceive and process information, which will result in cardinal changes in all spheres of social life. The results of the research may be useful for refining the theory of the mass media and optimizing their activities.

The paper discusses the criminological characteristics of convicted women in penitentiary institutions. It is based on the authors own observations, the analysis of disciplinary practices and crimes of convicted women and the reports of various departments of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in 2015-2017. Due to the social function of women, the problem of female crime and its prevention is currently urgent and requires a prompt solution. Most incarcerated women are of child-bearing age, some of them enter the penitentiary system already being pregnant, others become pregnant after extended visits by their husbands. The authors identify and analyze personal and criminological aspects of convicted womens behavior in the context of their motherhood. The paper stresses the behavioral characteristics of convicted women connected with motherhood in the conditions of isolation (the phenomenon of motherhood in the conditions of penitentiary isolation). The penitentiary system should provide the necessary conditions for mothers and their newborn children, which puts an additional specific burden on penitentiary systems employees responsible for achieving the goals of punishment, correction of inmates, observance of regime and prevention of repeat crimes.

The review is a critical response to the monograph «Image advertorial as phenomenon of the contemporary media landscape» by L.G. Yegorova. The monograph makes a deep linguistic discourse analysis of the notion of media text, and shows relevant category features and ontological properties of image advertorial. The work is a coherent inter-disciplinary research, where the genre of image advertorial in Russian mass media discourse is studied from the position of linguo-sociological culturology and psycholinguistics, and from a communicative-pragmatic point of view.