"Digital Divide" as Legitimate Social Problem: Cultural Differences inside the Great Narrative

The article suggests that from the very beginning “digital divide” has been constructed by the state as a legitimate social problem on the basis of etatist great narratives. The author argues that the state remains the only subject of construction and resolution of “digital divide” problem in Russia Civil society is just at the beginning of realizing its objectives and wishes in the sphere of communicative technologies.

Keywords: digital divide, construction of social problems, social problem’s cycle, legitimization, “rhetoric of the American dream”, the egalitarian rhetoric, development of the information society in Russia.