The term "Information culture" is based on two basic concepts: culture and information. In accordance with this, a significant number of researchers distinguish informational and cultural approaches to the interpretation of this term.
From the point of view of the culturological approach, information culture is a way of human existence in the information society. It is seen as part of the development of human culture.
From the point of view of the informational approach, the vast majority of researchers: A. P. Ershov, S. A. Beshenkov, N. V. Makarova, A. A. Kuznetsov, E. A. Rakitina and others - define this concept as a set of skills, knowledge, skills for selecting, searching, analyzing and storing information.
Information culture, depending on the subject acting as its carrier, is considered at three levels:
- information culture of a particular person;
- information culture of a separate community group;
- information culture of society in general.
The information culture of a particular person, asmany researchers believe, is a level system that develops over time.
The information culture of a separate group of the community is observed in the informational behavior of a person. At the moment, a basis is being developed to create a contradiction between the category of people whose information culture is being created against the backdrop of the development of information technologies.
After the information revolutions that happened, there were changes in social relations in every sphere of human life. The modern information culture of society includes all past forms combined into a single whole.
Information culture is both a part of the general culture and a systematized set of knowledge, skills, and abilities that ensures the best implementation of personal information activity, which is aimed at meeting individual needs of a cognitive nature. This set includes the following list:
1. Information worldview.
Under the information worldview is meant the idea of such concepts as information resources, the information society, information arrays and flows, the patterns of their organization and actions.
2. Ability to formulate own information requests.
3. Ability to perform personal information search of different types of documents.
4. The ability to use the information received in one's own cognitiveor learning activities. Information culture has three stages of completeness.
The development of an individual's information culture is seen in his cognitive behavior. Through such behavior, on the one hand, the activity of the individual as a studying subject, his ability to orient himself in the space of information is reflected. On the other hand, it determines the measure of accessibility and usability of aggregate information resources. These are the opportunities provided by society to a person who strives to succeed as a professional and as a person.
