Laws and contradictions of personality’s digital information culture development

The relevance of the research is determined by penetration of the digital environment into people's lives at all levels that actualizes issues of developing personality's digital qualities both at the level of individual skills and more complex didactic units. The article aims at revealing the laws and contradictions of contemporary digital environment influence on individual's information culture as pedagogically considered quality. The research is based on the postulates of fundamental works that studied the information culture concept in social and later pedagogical paradigms against the background of computerization era as well as modern works that consider it from interdisciplinary humanitarian positions. The main research methods are dialectical analysis that makes possible to compare various factors in person's digital information culture development, abstraction that allows us to discuss the information impact without reference to its content, and synthesis that helps to form understanding of solutions to emerging contradictions. The paper grounds digital information culture as a new type of personality quality in comparison with information culture in the traditional sense. It emphasizes the increasing influence of spontaneous non-institutional information environment on cognitive processes. The novelty of the article consists in considering the development of information culture from a generalized theoretical standpoint of digital information influence as opposed to the traditional study of forming specific information qualities with a technological emphasis. The author concludes that the studied laws and contradictions correspond to the general pedagogical dialectic of human individuality and mass education interaction.

pedagogical laws, pedagogical contradictions, information culture, digital space, digital information, personality development, pedagogical dialectics, informational society, information route, information consumption