Digitization and its dimensions in a social context

Abstract

This article shows different aspects of digitization related to digital literacy and skills, as well as the state of digital education in the context of Covid-19 situation in national context. The article is aimed at presenting how the characteristics of the educational system change with the progressive inclusion of digitization, as well as how people's attitudes towards the overall environment are changing. The main methods used are a questionnaire conducted with 1018 people, which describe the availability of digital skills and assesses various aspects of the digitization of society, including the quality of distance learning. The second method is quantitative - 2 focus groups conducted with students from SWU in 2021; as the main topic is distance education in the conditions of Covid-19, its positive and negative sides. The main conclusions of the article are that digitization has entered all areas of society and is an important and even dominant principle of social existence and development. Therefore, the only way in which society can exist is to stimulate the conditions of digitization, to develop specific measures to increase people's digital literacy and digital skills, as well as to develop their critical thinking towards information and various sources and networks.