The aim of this paper is to
interpret the application of information technologies as an element
of the modern culture. Author develops a thesis that the leading
role of social communication in constructing the contemporary
realities is an essential characteristic of the modernity. Because
of that the computer and network technologies outline a new,
qualitatively different stage in the development of contemporary
society, which often is called "post-modernity". This stage is
characterized with display of all possibilities of modern mentality
and social practice.
The computer networks create virtual models of the modern culture,
they reproduce entirely its semantic and perceptive continuum
(poly-dimensional space of interaction between images, symbols, the
transfer of meanings, the ways of constructing social reality).
Therefore we can't have any doubts about that the techno-structure
of information society is a base of all principal characteristics
of modernity: instrumental rationality, scientism, and
secularity.
This paper observes the complex transformations of transition from
post-industrial to information society.
Key words: modernity; information society; post-modernity; modern
culture