INFORMATIZATION OF SOCIETY: THE AMBIVALENT NATURE OF SOCIAL CHANGES
The article provides a socio-philosophical analysis of the consequences of informatization of society. We study the development of information technologies, provoking changes in communication practices, as well as the impact of information and communication technologies on the social and individual consciousness of modern man. The analysis reveals the ambivalent nature of the social consequences of informatization. It is shown that developed ICTs, being a significant resource of the state and society, at the same time provoke the emergence of specific forms of information handling, cause problems with attention and weakening of critical thinking skills. It is shown how the specific features of the organization of the information space of the Network (such as hypertextuality, multimedia and information redundancy) form the clip consciousness of a modern person. The specificity of the clip thinking, which is formed in a situation of total accessibility and information surplus, is revealed. Examples of attention management technologies using the latest ICT are given, problems of reliability of information and manipulation of consciousness are touched upon. Analyzing these phenomena, provoked by informatization, the author focuses on the need to formulate the values of the information society. The necessity of introducing educational programs aimed at the formation of audiovisual literacy and skills of independent, critical and self-reflective thinking is substantiated. It is emphasized that the further development of ICT can be a non-deforming means of progress only if the effects of the transformation of social reality provoked by it are harmonized by an adequate transformation of all the institutions of society.