Abstract. The article aims to determine how information society influences the transformation of intercultural communication in a globalized world. The reception of leading philosophical concepts related to this issue is implemented. In particular the points of view of such philosophers as I. Wallerstain, J. Habermas, Y. Masuda, S. Huntington, F. Fukuyama and others are analyzed here. The article provides the idea that the presence of common information environment to different cultures is not able to ensure the integration and cooperation of the world community in all spheres of life society by itself. The efforts of different ethnic community's representatives are required to upgrade intercultural communication.

The paper looks at the major technological, sociocultural and linguistic factors that are changing the nature of interpersonal communication in the Information Age, and some manifestations of these changes. Rapid progress of technology, above all, the advent of the Internet, brought about dramatic changes in the modes and parameters of human communication over the recent decades. New types of written communication arose and have firmly established themselves on the global scale – in social networks, chats, blogs, forums and various Internet communities. Having created unprecedented possibilities for connecting with people irrespective of their location, age or social status, innovative technology is at the same time challenging standards of communication ethics and speech culture. Sociocultural transformations in the modern society, democratization of social relations contribute to weakening of speech norms and deterioration of overall speech culture, especially among young people. The increasing role of English as a language of global communication and its reputation of the dominant language of new technology and virtual reality are inevitably influencing speech habits of the Internet users across the globe. The combined work of all these factors results in visible deterioration of speech culture, standardization and simplification of speech, elimination of cultural specificity, tendency to replace expressive language means with emoji, downgrading of style, defying norms of spelling, word use and grammar. Obvious irreversibility of technological progress and the growing share of life people spend online call on specialists from various related fields to continue comprehensive analysis of transformations of speech culture in the modern world with the aim to assess societal risks and work out timely and adequate countermeasures.

The article outlines the directions of transformation of ecological consciousness in the process of solving global problems. Insufficient impact of institutional changes on nature management regulation to ensure overcoming of environmental problems is shown. It is emphasized that the main tool for overcoming negative trends in the environmental sphere is the transformation of society’s consciousness towards its greening, aimed at achieving optimal interaction between society and nature, the harmonization of material and spiritual life as a real embodiment of the environmental imperative. It should be based on shifting the emphasis of ethical principles - from anthropocentrism to ecologycentrism, to restore the balance between man and thebiosphere.

The paper features the main theses of V. Vernadsky’s theory about scientific thought as a global phenomenon. The possibility of the use of the ideas of philosophers-cosmists to understanding the phenomenon of scientific discourse is analyzed. The authors come to the conclusion about the complementarity of the scientific ideas of V. Vernadsky modern approaches to the analysis of science as the driving force of the globalized society.

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