Kushakova-Kostytska N. Philosophical and legal principles of the formation and development of the information society in Ukraine

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the philosophical and legal principles of the formation and development of the information society in Ukraine. It is researched the legal grounds that led to the rapid and unceasing progress of information and communication technologies and their influence on philosophical, legal, social, economic, political, ethical, moral, cultural, educational and other dimensions of the life of society. The generalizations about the essence of the information society are made; the national, regional and global features of its development are studied; the prospects for the development of the information society in Ukraine are marked and a prognostic analysis of the possible negative and positive consequences of such development in the context of globalization and virtualization of all spheres of public life is given.