Building an Information and Communication Culture in the Modern Digital Environment

The study explores the problems of forming an information and communication culture in a modern digital environment. In the context of the concept of the information society, the paper considers the characteristics of various types of culture functioning in the contemporary digital environment: information, electronic, screen, Internet culture. It also reveals their typical features and distinctive features. Information culture is a type of culture that includes a system of views, ethical attitudes, rules and norms, based on information as value, and material media — means of transmission (press, radio, telephony, television and the Internet). As a synonym to “information culture,” the concept of “electronic culture” is often used. Its fundamental feature is virtual electronic platforms broadcasting cultural achievements. Screen culture is considered a kind of product of the information era, formed during the collision of a person with screen display media and inseparably associated with technological progress. Internet culture can become a particular type of culture, which includes the use of the Web as a platform for realizing the needs of communication and self-expression, developing creativity through the creation, use, transformation of virtual objects, often similar to real ones, but with a special, unique appearance. The work identified components of information culture, analyzed its interpretations within the framework of cultural, information, activity and personal approaches. In the study of electronic, screen and Internet culture, there are also several scientific approaches: cultural, philological, philosophical, psychological. The authors indicate that at this stage of the development of society, there is a formation of a new social type of person (“information”) and the nature of social relations. The authors considered the phenomenon of information and communication culture as a component of the information society and examined its formation in the digital environment using areas of education and culture as an example.