DIGITAL SOCIETY: TOWARD THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION

An attempt is made to conceptualize the phenomenon of the digital society. It is shown that the formation of a digital society is directly linked to the intensive development of new technologies that has taken place over the past few decades. The phenomenon of digitalization is analyzed as a result of informatization and computerization, and as the next stage in technological development. The digitalization of social reality is viewed as a combination of the processes of networking, datification, algorithmization, and platformization. The problem of communication in the digital society is examined against the backdrop of the mediatization of socio-cultural reality, and it is argued that the architectonics of the digital society is formed through digital processes of virtual communication.