PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN YOUTH PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERPERSONAL AND INTERGROUP COMMUNICATION IN REAL AND VIRTUAL SPACE

New trends in the process of information socialization of adolescents associated with the increasing influence of information as a new institution of socialization are considered. It is shown that the specificity of information socialization is determined by both the cognitive characteristics of adolescents and the emotional components of the search, processing and transmission of information, as well as new language forms that appear on the Internet and are widely distributed to other information spaces and spheres of communication. The results of the study of the features of interpersonal and intergroup communication of modern youth in real and virtual space are presented ^ = 76). It is shown that social networks are one of the most important parts of the picture of the world of modern teenagers. Social networks are currently forming an individual, subjective space of modern youth, which is beginning to dominate the overall picture of the world.