Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications Government of the Sakhalin Region Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO UNESCO / UNESCO Information for All Programme Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme Interregional Library Cooperation Centre Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society Proceedings of the international conference (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation, 8–12 September 2013) Moscow 2014 Financial support for this publication is provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Sakhalin Region Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society. Proceedings of the international conference (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation, 8–12 September 2013). – Moscow: Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, 2014. – 280 p. The book includes communications by the participants of the international conference “Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society” (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation, 8–12 September 2013) which has become an attempt to develop a comprehensive understanding of the direction, dynamics, character, scope, driving forces, content and results of socio-cultural changes under the impact of the Internet and other ICTs as they are spreading worldwide. World experts express their views of the Internet as a socio-cultural phenomenon, as well as of the nature and character of contemporary socio-cultural processes, possible directions and ways of the humanization of information society, development of strategies, policies and practices of knowledge societies building. Special attention is paid to the issues of multilingualism promotion in cyberspace and to the role of libraries in the digital world. The authors are responsible for the choice and presentation of facts and for the opinions expressed, which are not necessarily those of the compilers. ISBN 978-5-91515-061-3 © Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, 2014 2 CONTENTS PREFACE ........................................................................................................................... 6 MESSAGES TO CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS ...........................................14 Irina BOKOVA, UNESCO Director-General .........................................................14 Alexander KHOROSHAVIN, Governor of the Sakhalin Region .....................16 Gennady GATILOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation .........................................................................................................................18 Grigory IVLIYEV, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation ....19 Mikhail MARGELOV, Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation .............................................................................................21 PLENARY SESSIONS ................................................................................................22 Sinikka SIPILÄ. The IFLA Trend Report ...............................................................22 Evgeny KUZMIN. UNESCO Information for All Programme in the Context of the New Information Environment ...........................................31 Ludovit MOLNAR. On Negative Consequences of IT Use ................................38 Yuri CHERNY. Dwelling on Information Society ................................................43 Renaldas GUDAUSKAS. Information and Communication Technologies and Their Impact on the Society .................................................................................46 Jaroslaw LIPSZYC. The Great Copyright Swindle ..............................................63 Vladimir KHARITONOV. Information Society and a New Concept of Copyright .....................................................................................................................69 Aaron AVIRAM. What Should We Do Next? Towards the Encouragement of Green Policy on Digital Development .................................................................77 SECTION 1. THE INTERNET AS A SOCIO-CULTURA PHENOMENON ...........................................................................................................81 Andrey PELIPENKO. The Phenomenon of the Internet in the Context of Cultural Macroevolution .........................................................................................81 3 László Z. KARVALICS. Digital Initiates: Digital Natives in the Coming Age of “Internet of Everything” ......................................................88 Yekaterina SHAPINSKAYA. The Internet as a Space of Escapism: Limitless Possibilities and New Dangers ..................................................................97 Leonid KONOVALOV. Disruptive Consequences of Internet Development ..................................................................................................................103 Hamid ABEDI DOYOMI. Investigating the Effects of Using the Internet on Cultural Attitudes of Shiite Clergymen ............................................................110 Dietrich SCHÜLLER. The Internet and Its Influence on Quality and Authenticity of Audiovisual Documents ................................................................122 Emmanuel KONDOWE. Ethical Aspects of Communication in Information Society: The Case of Malawi .........................................................130 SECTION 2. CONTEMPORARY SOCIO-CULTURAL PROCESSES .....137 Susana FINQUELIEVICH. From Cultural Consumers to Cultural Prosumers: Citizens’ Co-creation of Cultural Changes in Information Society .................................................................................................137 Dmitry IVANOV. Societal Virtualization and Glam Capitalism .....................152 Michael GURSTEIN. The Internet, Global Governance, and the Surveillance State in a Post-Snowden World .........................................157 Maciej GRON. Public Sector Information:Openness or Universality ...........166 Alexander SHARIKOV. Russia’s Internet Audiences: Behavioural Patterns and Trends ......................................................................................................174 SECTION 3. TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES .................................183 Alfredo M. RONCHI. Digital Natives, Netizens, eCommunities. Civitas Solis or a Nightmare? ....................................................................................183 Andrejs VASIĻJEVS. Addressing the Ethical Challenges of Information Society .............................................................................................................................194 ROUNDTABLE “LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE DIGITAL WORLD” .......................................................................................................................207 Daniel PRADO. Towards a Multilingual Cyberspace ........................................207 4 Daniel PIMIENTA. Redefining Digital Divide Around Information Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in a Future Context of Access Provision .......................................................................................................213 Katsuko TANAKA. Web-Based Vulnerable Peoples – Focusing on Language....................................................................................................................225 Sergey BOBRYSHEV. ParaType Web Fonts for Multilingual Information Community .............................................................................................232 Liudmila ZAIKOVA. Multilingualism and Cyberspace as a Matter of Learning ......................................................................................................................238 ROUNDTABLE “LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL WORLD” ....................242 Maria Carme TORRAS CALVO. Academic Libraries as Facilitators of Digital Scholarship: Defining and Designing Online Research Support ..........................................................................................................242 Boris LOGINOV. Joint Catalogue of Russian Libraries and Prospects of Its Use for Control of Access to Library Digital Content .............................252 Piotr LAPO. From Information Society to Knowledge Society: Searching for New Priorities and Modes of Interaction .....................................258 Irina MIKHNOVA. Library as a Way of Life: New Standards of Library Behavior of Russian Youth ......................................................................265 FINAL DOCUMENT. The Sakhalin Declaration on Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations .......................................................................270 5 PREFACE International conference Internet and Socio-Cultural Transformations in Information Society took place in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation, on 8–12 September 2013 within the framework of the Russian chairmanship in the UNESCO Information for All Intergovernmental Programme. This first-ever international forum on the topic has become an attempt to develop a comprehensive understanding of the direction, dynamics, character, scope, driving forces, content and results of socio-cultural changes under the impact of the Internet and other ICTs as they are spreading worldwide. The conference’s highlight was an interdisciplinary approach to discussing all these issues with the participation of both theoreticians and practical