Some aspects of information security and information culture

Abstract

The article deals with the spectrum of the main problems related to the information security of modern media communication. There are two main areas of information security research: “protection of information from a person” (cyber threats, technological risks) and “protection of a person from information” (manipulative practices, cognitive distortions, the “post-truth” phenomenon). In this regard, the concept of information culture as the foundation of information security, as well as information ethics, is analyzed. The latter shows the inefficiency of the so-called “netiquette”; in the concept of information culture, three main aspects are distinguished: technological, cognitive and value-ideological. It is noted that the analysis of the first and second aspects dominates in research, while in practice it is the latter that plays the main role. Therefore, the formation of the information culture depends on the cultural level of a particular society and the world community as a whole; the latter, according to the author, implies a genuine dialogue of cultures, understood as mutual enrichment of cultural and moral values, coupled with a joint analysis, identification and discussion of destructive values. On this path, it is possible to solve not only the problems of information security, but also many socio-cultural, political and other problems of the modern world.