The purpose of the research is to consider the specifics of media technologies used by popular Internet resources during Coronavirus's pandemic. The research methods include the quality analysis of functional possibilities and the content of the most famous Russian Internet resources (VKontakte, Yandex, Google), reflecting the questions of Coronavirus pandemic 2020 and survey of the Internet audience (N=1500). The results include the classification of contemporary media technologies' possibilities in socially important events: information services, entertaining opportunities, communicative support, social support, and social tasks. The author concludes that Internet users support the implementation of contemporary media technologies and media instruments to develop the socially essential tasks and informational support of such events, such as the Coronavirus pandemic. The audience willingly percept the innovative technologies, including those which use artificial intelligence algorithms. However, the lack of knowledge about their functioning principles often causes the mistrust of such tools. Ethics is very acute for the audience when the users' data could be analyzed without permission (face check, search processing). (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.
Pandemic 2020: Use of Contemporary Media Technologies in Socially Important Events