In modern socio-political conditions, as the whole world enters a new era (the information society), in which there is a rapid development of free mass media, changes in the structure and essence of interpersonal and intergroup communication, improvement of various mass media, which leads to the processing of a large flow of information. The development of the social structure requires a change in the mass consciousness, which is formed by the media system. In connection with the transformations taking place in the society of the twenty-first century, the interest in the problem of understanding the essence of the concept of society is being actualized. To date, in the scientific literature can be found a variety of interpretations of the essence of "society". Therefore, it is necessary to understand this concept in detail. Turning to the analysis of the semantics of the word "society", we are immediately confronted with the fact that it has many meanings.