Modern Digitalization as a Social Institution and as a Sphere of Society

Abstract

The article discusses the institutionalization processes of digital public relations, which have two forms of social embodiment a digital social institution and a digital information sphere (subsystem) of public life. The basis of their emergence is the “human knowledge communication computer technology” structure. Its elements folding into integrity make up digital formal and informal institutions in economics, politics, culture and social life. The digital information sphere arises as a unity of diverse digital institutions, it relies on its own type of activity and has as a subject a new type of personality e-Homo Sapiens. The characteristics, mechanisms of occurrence, and the features of the purpose of the institution and the sphere are substantiated and revealed in the course of the analysis undertaken within the framework of the neo-institutional approach to the development of society. The sequence of the emergence of these phenomena presented in the form of stages constitutes the trend of modern post-industrial development.