The impact of the digital divide on social health in a post-industrial society

Abstract

The article is devoted to the impact of the phenomenon of digital inequality on social health. It is argued that social health can be considered as the presence of such a system of social ties that ensures the inclusion of a person in society, minimizing factors that undermine physical and mental health. In the context of the transformation of public institutions and social practices associated with the transition to a post-industrial society, an extensive zone of social risks is being formed. By social risks, we mean such a transformation of social reality, such an implementation of certain states of the social system that can lead to the weakening and destruction of the social system or cause any damage to the perceiving subject. In relation to social health, the fundamentally important risks are the crisis of the welfare state and the phenomenon of digital inequality, which in the new conditions becomes a factor either mitigating the consequences of the crisis of traditional social security structures, or one of the forms of structural violence.