Trust in a digital society
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Sociology
Year: 2020

What is a digital society? How does trust work in this new digital world? What is its difference compared to previous types of trust? All of these issues are in the very focus of this article. The first part of the paper shows how sociologists characterize a digital society, which makes it fundamentally different from an industrial and postindustrial ones. A characteristic feature of digitalization is its comprehensiveness. All spheres of activity, individual and collective, arebeing organized i