The impact of digital interaction on the transformations of socio-economic and educational processes in Russian society

Abstract

In contemporary Russian society, the development of digitalization is tied with the battle against the detrimental effects of COVID-19. In the face of the spread of the infection transmitted primarily through direct human interaction, the need to change the format of this interaction to digital has risen. The dynamics of digitalization were boosted, leading to several problems. There surfaced the issues of technical difficulties, the lack of digital literacy on the part of individual staff members in organizations and some social groups and individuals (primarily those in the socially vulnerable population groups), the limitations of direct interpersonal interaction, the redundancy of digital information, emotional fatigue from having to work and learn only remotely, the cybersecurity of online interactions, a significant increase in digital control over citizens’ lives, the risks of social and psychological tension and distrust of digitalization, technophobia, inability to rationally apply the successes of scientific and technological advancement to improve personal and social well-being.