GENESIS OF INFORMATION CULTURE PHENOMENON
The article focuses on the research of information culture, as a multidimensional, complicated phenomenon arising from interaction among social sciences in the field of study “knowledge”, ”information”, ”culture”. The phenomena “knowledge” and “information” are being researched as interdependent elements in the work, which meanings are changing because of the nature of the times and social conditions as well: from interpretation the knowledge as a product of a cognitive process to the knowledge as the result of information activity. Beginning with a detailed analysis of the phenomenon “knowledge” the author of the article underlines the historical value of the cognitive activity which is being transformed because of the evolution of society and technological development into information activity. Information symbolized a new age, a product of unique human relations, which are characterized by a latent mechanization of social interaction of people. Particular attention is given to culture, which acts as a custodian of social integrity, nature of a society and serving as an engine for its development. In this context, the information culture is considered through the prism of all these phenomena, included social knowledge, cognitive process of individuals and principles of information exchange.