Abstract. The author argues that transition to a new world order together with the innovative transformations of social reality related to the modern globalisation result in a fundamental change of content and direction of communication processes, to which a human being is exposed. The change of the knowledge and information role in social development, the global proliferation of the mass information media and meta-languages of culture, the greater negative impact of social anomia, and destruction of the collective identity foundations can be regarded as the indications of the so called “communication revolution.” These and other phenomena are attracting a greater attention of Russian and foreign researchers of communication.