Summary
This paper discusses the quality of cultural change through which the modern society and its members are undergoing. This change is caused by a variety of technical and technological innovations that redefine the classical coordinates and limitations of nature, space and time. These new extensions structure (personal and social) daily life of each of us, fulfilling it with senses of fear, on one side, and hope, on the other. As a results of this internal contradiction, the mankind is entering into the historical epoch of instability, doubt, fear, defragmentation and general social alienation, in which social and/or ideological consensus that enabled social life in certain social frameworks is being replaced by affectual nebula as the basis for new affectual identification from which the new sociability is derived. One of the favorite places for meetings and manifestation of this new sociability at the contemporary scene of everyday life is the Internet. However, although the field of sociability and social interaction in modern society quite obvious extended to the area of cyber reality, it seems that awareness of this fact has not yet been incorporated into procedures, practices and public policies of the existing institutional (cultural and educational) system. The aim of a new social contract, which would symbolically mark transition into a new cyber-socialcondition, would be to convert, now uninhibited and unrestricted freedom that actors in internet communications have, into some kind of cyber-civic freedom, that would be smaller than the present one, but equal for all the cyber- citizens/users of the internet.

Keywords:
postmodern era, cultural change, education, new sociability, cyber space, communication, social allienation, affectual nebula, digitization, information literacy

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