Digital Culture – A Historical Stage in the Development of the Information Culture of Society

Abstract

Different scientific approaches to digital culture have been analysed in the article: digital culture is considered as a special form of being, a special integral design that includes audiovisual, semiotic, technological, logical, communication, network and other subsystems that exists at five levels: material, functional, symbolic, mental and spiritual; and as a set of values ofmodern society based on digital coding; and as a system of changes in practices, products of human activity associated with the culture of the digital age; and as a special level of digital literacy and competency. The anthropological aspect of digital culture has been emphasized. The main causes and stages of the development of digital culture as a modern stage in the development of the information culture of society also have been considered.