Digitalization and formation of digital culture: social and educational aspects

Abstract

The digital society is a modern stage of civilization characterized by the dominant role of education and in-formation in all spheres of life, which has a decisive impact on the living conditions of people, their education and work, as well as on the relationship between the state, business and society through information and communication technologies. The process of forming a new type of culture should be based on the moderni-zation of the way of organizing the educational process in a modern university. It is proposed to define the digital culture of a future specialist as the values of digitalization that do not contradict generally accepted humanistic values, the presence of digital competence, possession of technologies for optimal orientation in digital reality and effective communication in the information space. The article analyses the current state of digitalization in all spheres of human life, considers characteristics and features of a shift to digital culture, represents the main levels of considering the concept of «digital culture», specifies the concept of «digital culture of the future specialist», and sets out the main vectors in the process of developing the investigated type of culture.