Legal awareness in the digital society

Abstract

The paper considers the scientific views on the issue of legal conscience. The structure, components, functions, types and levels of legal conscience are studied. Modern society is at the stage of global transition to a new technological order, the features of which are determined not only by changes in technology, but also by the state of public institutions. The emergence, creation and widespread practical application of revolutionary technologies (artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain technologies, analytical structures based on Big Data, self-managed Smart Everything systems, etc.) creates a new "digital ecosystem" in which the legal system cannot remain unchanged. The paper includes the advantages and threats associated with the use of digital technologies in legal practice. Attention is drawn to the transformational processes in the life of society associated with digitalization and their impact on the branch of law, determines the change in its target function, its forms, mechanisms and actions. With the development of digital technologies, there is the emergence of new legal relations that cause both positive and negative impact on the formation of human legal consciousness. The positive impact includes the Internet, which is turning into a Tool for regulating the economy and law, digital management methods in the form of «electronic government», as well as the process of «digitalization of law», carried out using new digital technologies in order to optimize processes and legal relations. Along with this, negative factors were identified, such as: clip thinking, increased unemployment, cybercrime, namely the emergence of new types of crimes (Internet banking, financially motivated hacker attacks with extortion of money, DDoS cyberattacks).