The Transformation of Screen Culture as A Phenomenon of Information Age

The article raises the question of transformations of screen culture in the XXth–XXIst centuries. Screen culture as a phenomenon of audiovisual synthesis has gone a long way from the moment of its inception (photography, invention of cinema, later the development of radio, television, and video) to a wave of ‘digital revolution' that has produced the new forms of screen art, manifested not only in the digitization of cinema, photo, and television products, but also in computer technologies, online social networks, etc. It was the screen culture that became the construct of such a phenomenon as ‘virtual reality'.   Keywords: screen, screen culture, audiovisual synthesis, information age, digital revolution, media space, virtual reality, virtual cultur