Mukomela I. Legal Foundations of the Information Society: General-theoretical Analysis.

The evolution of the approaches for understanding of the information society was analyzed in this thesis work. The various aspectual of researched concepts and their cross-disciplinary character were noticed. The study of fundamentals of legal regulation and functioning fundamentally of the information society was performed. Its connection to the civil society, constitutional, democratic, social welfare state was studied. Specificity of democracy development in the conditions of the information society was analyzed. It was highlighted its new form - semi direct e-democracy. The particular attention is paid to the electronic state and the electronic government. The analysis of the evolution of the right to information through the generation of human rights was analyzed. The interconnection of this right to the right to free expression of the convictions, the right to the access to the information, the right to communicate and the right to access into the Internet was studied. The place and the role of the right to information in the information society were analyzed. The legal foundations of the information security of Ukraine were studied. Dangers and challenges to the information security were identified. The current situation of legal regulation of information relations in Ukraine was analyzed. The priority directions of development of information society in Ukraine with simultaneous improving of its legislative support were formulated.