The article “Interrelation of Information Technologies and Economy Development Stages” by candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Boris Slavin opens the item ‘’Social and Economic Aspects of the Information Society’’. The interrelation of IT development and economic development of the society is traced in the article. The author's analysis, provided in the article, allows to more clearly position the role of IT in the organization depending on the management technologies applied to measure the level of maturity in the use of information technology.

There are four articles in the item “Human in the Information Society”. Doctor of philosophical sciences Irina Alexeeva explores manipulation-based socio-humanitarian technologies phenomenon. The article by candidate of cultural sciences Ivan Tuzovsky from Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts "Information Society Paradoxes" is dedicated to identification of the social contradictions caused by the informatization processes, which ares usually associated with the development of the information society.

The article by Anton Zhelnin from Perm State National Research University “Information measurement of anthropological crisis of civilization” proves that informatization has an ambivalent impact on the person that is associated with an excess of information received, which leads to stress, overload and mental disturbance of homeostasis of the nervous system.

Finally, the article of the candidate of political sciences Dmitry Chizhov identifies and characterizes the political views of the digital generation Z, analyses mechanisms of influence of the political behavior of the Internet generation, considers the features of political communication with representatives of the generation Z.

In the traditional item of the journal “Culture in the Information Society” the article by Ekaterina Ignatova, representing the Scientific Library of Perm State National Research University, was published. The problem of introduction of the information technologies in library activities, taking into account some peculiarities of their application in order to support teaching and research activities of teachers and students is considered in the article.