Visualizing future: overview of research approaches

Abstract

The article analyzes contemporary research approaches to the problem of visualization of the future, the images
of which are formed with the help of social networks. There are considered arguments, according to which, images
and forms for visualization of the future can be treated as technologies of creating new worlds (reflecting the diversity
and multidimensionality of various social practices). The authors defend the thesis that images and forms of visualization
of the future vary significantly in different social environments and contexts. It is suggested that every image within
the visualization of the future includes many traces of individual interpretations, which influences, in turn, the processes
of formation of collective shared images of the future.