DIGITAL CULTURE AS A DETERMINANT OF CHANGES IN THINKING, WORLDVIEW, EDUCATION

Abstract

The article raises the question of such key issues for a person in an era of change as the vision of the world, feeling and understanding of it, the ability to orient oneself to a certain picture of the world. The authors consider and analyze the key characteristics of the new culture ‒ digital, because it changes almost all spheres of human life. The modern world unfolds in completely new planes of reality – this is a «mixed» reality (physical and virtual / digital), the culture of the digital context. It is shown that the latter acts as a determinant, a driving force of changes in thinking, worldview, education. The authors put forward the idea that the issue of worldview in the 21st century should be considered in broad contexts, taking into account those changes that affect not only our life, any dimensions of its manifestation, but, above all, taking into account the transformations of the mechanisms of thinking formation, which in the future can become the basis for a new worldview. It is analyzed that the fixation of changes in thinking indicates the development of skills to navigate in the world, the formation of a new worldview. If the worldview position is a consequence of the implementation of digital culture, the question arises about the nature of its influence on the construction of reality. In this, the authors start from the general characteristics of the new culture, the echo of which are the features of human behavior and its, for example, forms of life, such as education. Educational processes are considered, visualized, first of all, in an electronic form, which is powered by modern technologies. In the new culture, transformations of communication mechanisms are activated under the conditions of using information and communication technologies, in which cultural norms are replaced by conventional norms that prevail in meta-systems built on a communication basis. This emphasizes the emergence of elements of new thinking, which is accompanied by new behavior from a perspective of a person and is recorded by the term «worldview revolution». Western scientists write about the emergence of a «transformational worldview», which, according to the authors, requires, on the one hand, conceptual analysis, and on the other, reflections on the intellectual shifts of all humanity. It has been proven that the features of digital culture lay the foundation for a new attitude to the world. Appeal to thinking becomes a necessary element in the new culture, because it builds the skill of describing the world and one's place in it, and if a person also has a philosophical toolkit, a holistic picture of his understanding is revealed to him, as I. Kant once wrote.