Operational Model of the Digisocium - a multi-layered structure of platform-shaped digital society

Operational Model of the Digisocium introduces a new theoretical and methodological framework for understanding how digital environments structure modern social life. Moving beyond infrastructure, interfaces, or content, the concept of Digisocium describes the emergence of a layered digital social ontology—shaped by platforms, algorithms, and norms encoded into interaction design. While much of digital theory has focused on isolated phenomena—networks, platforms, surveillance, mediatization—the Digisocium approach integrates these into a coherent system of five core structural layers: algorithmic behavior, digital subjectivity, virtual communities, platform governance, and micro-publics. Additional dimensions such as algorithmic time, affective regimes, digital labor, and platform territoriality expand the model’s analytical range. Unlike metaphorical frameworks, Digisocium is operational: each layer is linked to empirical indicators, measurable patterns, and comparative methodologies. This enables researchers, strategists, regulators, and designers to use the framework not only to describe the digital condition, but to diagnose, map, and act within it. The document includes a comparative review of existing theories (e.g., Castells’ Network Society, Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, Floridi’s Infosphere, and Ball’s Metaverse), showing how Digisocium builds upon and systematizes their insights. It also offers a set of case applications—from Telegram and YouTube to GPT and Roblox—demonstrating how the framework reveals deep structural differences between platforms. Ultimately, Digisocium is both a language and a toolkit. It allows us to see digital society not as a flat, technical domain, but as a stratified space of norms, powers, identities, and publics. It is an invitation to rethink how we study, regulate, and design our digital futures.