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The results of the 2024 sociological study of factors, specificity and social consequences of digitalization processes in the Republic of Belarus are considered in the article. The emphasis is on the peculiarities of applying digital technologies by the representatives of the middle generation as the grounds for their digital socialization. Its specificity is that the middle generation after 40 years master digital technologies more often out of necessity than at will. The main regularity is correlation between the age of respondents and their activity in the digital sphere: the younger is the representative of the middle generation, the more socialized he is in terms of subjective perception of digital technologies, their active mastering and conscious employment. Different levels of respondents’ digital literacy entail a demand for specific digital technologies, for their use determined by the realities of everyday life: online shopping, making an appointment with a specialist, taxi services etc. Identified are the risks and inhibitors of mastering digital technologies. Techno-phobias in everyday life are revealed as dominating among personal, technical and economic inhibitors. As various inhibitors cease to be insuperable obstacles, the reduction of their impact is defined as the potential for mastering digital technologies by the middle generation of the Belarusians.
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68-77
doi:
10.24412/1994-3776-2024-4-68-77