UDC 101.1:316.4

INFORMATION RISKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE

©Tsyra, Oleksandra
Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications named after O. S. Popov, Educational and
Research Institute of Infocommunications and Software Engineering, the Department of
Communication Networks (Odesa, Ukraine)
E-mail: Kaphedra.philos@onat.edu.ua, ORCID 0000-0003-3552-2039
Abstract. The article explains the essence and architectonics of informatization and the
constructivism of its impact on all spheres of social development. This process has contradictions
related to the intensive development of new information technologies, modernization processes and
their revolutionary influence on all spheres of public life. As a dialectical process, informatization is
explained as a factor containing risks in the development of a scientific knowledge. These risks are
associated with the informatization of the individual about the state of the information resources of
science which generates the process of amplification of foundation of the development of various
forms of extra-scientific knowledge. Risk is characterized as a share of "bad" in "good", it is
associated with subjectivism and destructivism in the interpretation of true scientific knowledge, its
use in selfish interests. In the information age, technological development has led to the fact that
attention has shifted from objectives to means. Not the search for truth but the solution of the status
problems became the main thing. Attention is focused on the specific weight of the development of
quasi-science and anti-science which consciously distort the idea of science about the essence of
natural and social reality. Pseudoscience is explained as an intellectual activity of the subject,
imitating scientific activity and not bringing increments of a new objectively true knowledge. The
attention is on the formation of the psevdoequivalence of subject which leads to his spiritual
disintegration and the loss him capacity to discern truth. The process of strengthening information
cynicism in the public consciousness which is formed by modern informatization processes is
disclosed. Information cynicism is presented as a form of worldview reflecting a nihilistic attitude to
info-resources and forming a mistrust of the truth of any information including science-based. And as
a result there is a real threat of falsification and speculation on modern but not very productive areas.
Keywords: informatization, subject, risk, knowledge, extra-scientific knowledge, quasi-science,
anti-science, pseudoscience, informational nihilism

INFORMATION RISKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE