OF MODERN FOREIGN AND NATIONAL THEORETICS
We consider the general and special in understanding the «network» and «digital» society. «Network society» and «digital society» are similar concepts, but not identical to each other. Common in understanding of both types of information society is that most researchers try to conceptualize them through the prism of globalization and the organizing potential of the global network and wireless communications. The difference is the following: when it comes to a network society, researchers focus on new, networked forms of communication; as for digital society, researchers consider new forms of information storage and use. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that both concepts can be regarded as characteristics of modern information society in their dualistic unity.