Regularities and Contradictions in the Formation of the Digital Information Environment

Abstract

The paper analyzes the transformations occurring at the level of society’s institutional matrix under the influence of a unique combination of evolutionary (increasing complexity of information and technological development) and revolutionary (the COVID-19 pandemic) factors. The authors suggest that current institutional transformations result in the formation of digital spheres of society, constituting in their totality the digital information environment, and model their structural relationships and the preferred scenarios for each segment of the institutional transformation. Based on the analysis of doctrinal theories, the legal and regulatory framework of the Russian Federation, and statistical data specifying the outcome of the transformations on the example of the North Caucasian Federal District in a cross section of the Karachayevo-Chircassian Republic and the Stavropol Territory, the authors highlight the problems in the regulation of digital areas, noting great scientific interest and practical significance of further consideration of the dynamics of the digital information environment.