NEW FORMS OF STUDENT YOUTH SOCIALIZATION IN THE INTERNET SPACE

Abstract

Socialization of personality has always been closely associated with family and education system, but in the information society, it undergoes a transformation and the most important factors of socialization are network of communications. The lifestyle is changing under the influence of the Internet - changing structure of leisure time, the usual channels of information, the nature of interpersonal interactions. Young people are increasingly seeking to communicate, to play, to learn in the Internet space. At the result, there are new forms of socialization, formation of the person of a new type. A new classification of forms of Internet socialization of young people is proposed. The results of a survey to identify the purpose of use of the Internet are presented. The results showed that the young generation actively uses the Internet mostly for social networking, for the sake of hobbies and music. The classification of traditional forms of socialization is studied and a new principle of classification from the point of view of membership type of young people in the Internet space to a particular community, group, corporation, educational institution, etc., namely: formal, non-formal and informal online group or community, each of which corresponds to a set of Internet technologies or Internet systems are presented.