Abstract: This article reviews the dangers associated with the transition from information society towards the “society of knowledge”. The author conducts a comparative analysis between the notions of “information society” and “society of knowledge”, as well as examines the issues pertaining to their economic and technological development. In addition to that, the article introduces the notions of “knowledge economy” alongside the key stages of its development; “dangerous knowledge”, because of which the society of knowledge can pass onto the society of risk; and “information economy”. Initially, the author compares the notions of “information society” and “knowledge society”, and later determines their similarities and differences. The conclusion is made that over the recent decades, we can notice a significance increase in the multiplicity of information risks, the sources of which is the society, nature, and human; and this can lead to the transition from the “society of knowledge” towards the society of risks. Also, due to implementation of a complex of systemic measures of science and education, as well as support of the government in global knowledge economy, Russian can take a worthy place.

Keywords: Knowledge economy, Information economy, Russia, Information risks, Society of risks, Dangerous knowledge, Technological progress, Economic development, Society of knowledge, Information society

Abstract: The modern society, in which a significant portion of communications shifted into cyberspace, regulates a specific type of ethics, a so-called information, computer, or ethic of information society, intended to ensure the civil rights and liberties in both, real and virtual sphere of activity. At the same time, the ethical codices of information society, as the information society itself, continue to be in the stage of development, and the virtual interaction is often realize outside the universal ethics or have its own specificity and rules. These problems comprise the subject of the research of a peculiar section of information ethics, which is aimed at the analysis of the moral aspects of development of information technologies, ethical principles and norms of virtual communication, moral issues associated with media community. The object of this work is the characteristics of the problems of information ethics, its status, as well as the review of the ethical codices encouraged to regulate the information society that are introduced on the international level. The development of information ethics is examined with relation to the phenomena of electronic culture and process of virtualization of a lifestyle of a contemporary human being. The article presents an original definition of the “information ethics”, as well as the analysis of the subject of its study and specificity. The author determines the subjective and objective factors of formation of information ethics, and substantiates its special status and place within the system of scientific philosophical knowledge. Special attention is given to the role of UN and UNESCO in development of the ethnical codices and Declarations of information society; the main trends of development of international activity in this area are being systematized.  

Keywords: Cybersecurity, Cyberthreat, NBICS-technologies, Electronic culture, UNESCO, UN, Information society, Ethical codex, Virtualization, Information ethics

Abstract: The object of the research is the phenomenon of e-culture represented through both creation of virtual analogies to actual or 'alive' culture and generation of new information phenomena based on information technologies (Internet, electronic libraries, virtual museums, distance education, social networks, computer games, etc.). The importance of studying these phenomena grow as their role in the life of human and society excels replacing previous kinds of socialization, communication, education and recreation. The main research method used by Baeva in her research is Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopic spaces and his heterotopia principles allowing to analyze complex structures and 'other' reality objects as cultural phenomena of different epochs. This method allows to see the products of e-culture as performing special functions for human and culture as well as to uncover their otherness, multilayeredness and hypertextuality. The author of the article has studied temporary, ontological and anthropological aspects of heterotopiae at the age of information and described peculiarities of these phenomena versus classical phenomena. The purpose of the research is to provide better understanding of the essence of e-culture and e-cultural phenomena as well as to develop the theory of heterotopia as part of the modern philosophical discourse. 

Keywords: computer games, social networks, electronic libraries, cyber, e-culture, heterotopia, virtualization, space, communication, time

Abstract: This article is an attempt to analyze the information culture phenomenon. The author describes different approaches to explanation of the essence of the ‘information’ and ‘culture’ universals. The authors share their views on the nature of this phenomenon and prove that it is effi cient to use a multidisciplinary approach when studying the problem of formation of a personal information culture.

Keywords: philosophy, information, culture, informatization, education, personality, technologies, society, activity, interaction

Abstract: The study of historical past is important not only in order to attain new knowledge. This study is also the precondition for the development of modern social and cultural life. This article includes the analysis of philosophical aspects of historical reconstruction…