Technological factor in the transformation of intergenerational communications

The paper analyzes the dynamics of intergenerational interaction under the influence of modern communicative practices of young people, in turn, conditioned by the development of information technology. Using M. Mead's concept of pre-figurative culture and S. Ward's concept of reverse socialization, the research explains the process of positive activation of intergenerational communication due to growing needs of elder generation for competences of their children and grandchildren that, however, changes the habitual vector of socialization influence. The authors conclude that the dynamics of intergenerational communication under the influence of information technology is ambivalent: the natural increase in value contradictions is compensated by the intensification of interaction in the course of exchanging the experience and competence.