Digital transformations in education and society: potentialities and complications

Recieved: 08/15/2021

Accepted: 09/27/2021

Published: 03/31/2022

Keywords: Digital Humanities; informative and communicative technologies; artiﬁcial intellect; network ties

To cite this article

Molchanova G.G. Digital transformations in education and society: potentialities and complications. // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 2022. Issue 1. 9-16

Molchanova G.G. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The 21-st century impose new requirements on the system of the humanitarian knowledge and has a signiﬁcant impact on the Humanities, providing scientists with a wide scope of opportunities for innovations, cooperation, opening a whole range of new research methods in the area of education and society in general. “Digital Humanities” is one of the most rapidly developing trend nowadays. It represents an interdisciplinary ﬁeld of research that combines methods and practice of humanitarian, social and computational sciences to explore the possibilities of the application and interpretation of new digital, informational and communicational technologies in the Humanities and education. Nevertheless, the article focuses on what happens when the abilities of the artiﬁcial intellect and the importance of network ties are overestimated. Drawing on opinions and examples from diﬀerent sources, it is argued that these processes produce a need for deep and cautious analytical investigation in order to prevent us and our students from further disappoint ment.

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