The place and role of the intelligentsia in the era of digital transformation

The features of the integration of the intelligentsia into the new information reality are revealed.The multidirectional, chaotic and spontaneous nature of this process is noted: at the present stage, the strategy of the intelligentsia should not be survival in a technologically changing world, but an interested and active entry into digital reality and the proposal of a positive action program.The nature and forms of the dialogue between the Russian intelligentsia and the authorities in the context of the digital public sphere are investigated.The resources and means of mutual influence that determine the content of this dialogue are analyzed, its trends and prospects are revealed.The reasons preventing the establishment of an effective online dialogue between the government and society are analyzed.It is noted that the function of social advice remains, perhaps, the most vulnerable point of the online dialogue between the state and society.To implement it, the most competent groups of the population, primarily the intelligentsia, should be more actively involved in the discussion of socially significant problems and projects.The key role of the intelligentsia in achieving public consensus and in creating conditions for transparent and productive online communication is substantiated.It is concluded that the digital public sphere has a good chance of becoming a field of constructive and productive dialogue between the state and those social forces that are interested in national harmony, development and prosperity.