Communicative practices of youth in real and virtual spaces

In the context of digitalization of all processes and spheres of life, the lifestyle of a modern person is significantly changing. Communicative practices that are carried out both in real and virtual space are subject to great transformation. Communicative practices form new models and patterns of behavior, giving new meaning and content to the mechanisms of interaction. The virtualization of the communicative space has the greatest impact on children, adolescents and young people, since it is a key condition for their socialization, constructing meanings, content, models and practices of interaction. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the features of the communicative practices of young people in real and virtual space. Communicative practices of young people today are an object of interdisciplinary study. It is this approach that makes it possible to identify the motives and attitudes of young people about the possibilities, functions, and goals of communicative practices in real and virtual space. Today, the complementarity of the functions of communicative practices carried out by young people in real and virtual space can be traced. Communicative practices of youth should be considered as one of the key components of self-regulatory mechanisms of youth, since they are aimed not only at the transfer of information, but also at the construction, production and transmission of meanings. Features of communication practices allow you to determine the ideas of young people about communication, about their functions and capabilities, about the perception of the Internet space. It is substantiated that the increase in instrumental competence, the formation of digital hygiene skills, the development of communication skills and transmedia literacy in general ensure the adequacy of communication practices, reduce deviant forms of manifestation both in real and virtual space. The findings will make it possible to develop programs for the development of communication skills and transmedia literacy, to substantiate programs to support Internet socialization for children, adolescents and youth.