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Social and cultural transformations of today’s world. Homo digitalis within information context

D.V. Konishevsky, S.A. Vetrov
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https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.04-18.102

D.V. Konishevsky is Cand.Sci. (Philosophy), doc.; and S.A. Vetrov is Dr.Sci. (Philosophy), prof., head of sub-faculty at Omsk State Transport University e-mail: dv_konishevsky@mail.ru

 

Researched is the problem of social and cultural transformation of society within informational context. Analyzing are aspects of influence of digital technologies upon structural elements of modern society. Accentuated are terms and categories of new social-informational reality. The authors try to systematize key parameters of modern informational digital context with the aim to analyze mechanisms of functioning of society. Also in the article examining are characteristics of person of informational epoch (Homo digitalis) as inseparable part of modern society.

Key words: person of digital epoch, structural elements of society, social and cultural context, informational resources, technologies for manipulation dividuality, global communications, alternative reality.

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