Digital Society: Specific Concepts and Features

Abstract

Digital Society (DS) has become a concept that tends to replace the concept of Information Society because it expresses much better the reality in which we live. Digital Society is a society in which technologies are widely used to respond to various requests, needs, or challenges at individual, community, and social level. The concepts that define Digital Society can be grouped into three categories according to their field of reference: A first category of concepts includes technical, infrastructure aspects that contribute to the concrete realization of DS. The second category of concepts expresses a second level of manifestation of DS in terms of representation in the digital space of the activities and domains of societies in the form of specific applications for interaction, communication, and work. The third category of concepts expresses a third level of digital interaction and considers man and the implications of his presence in the digital environment (psycho-cognitive aspects and behaviours, as well as ethical, moral, legal, deontological aspects, etc.).