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The article considers online forms of civic participation of young people in the digital space, aimed at protecting their rights, expressing political positions, demonstrating attitude to decisions made by authorities. Oftentimes the civic activity of young people goes beyond social tasks and issues (volunteering, participation in social projects, etc.), becomes politicized due to the dependence of many decisions on the authorities. Therefore, the article considers civic participation in relation to the political activity of young people. It is proved that excessive freedom of action and lack of control in social media, the availability of various information channels, a decrease in trust and loyalty to official sources of information, create a zone of socio-political risks of the manifestation of the protest civic activity of young people, which falls under the influence of manipulators (influencers) and intensifies both online and offline formats. During the expert survey, it was found that as a result of online communication, content, communicational, electronic and ideological sociopolitical risks manifest themselves. The risks may produce consequences which may be destructive actions on the part of young citizens in social networks (criticism, condemnation, bullying, disinformation, aggression, etc.) against the political system. Due to the adoption of timely institutional measures, it is possible to manage the digital space, and in particular, the socio-political risks of civic participation of young people in modern Russia
Kinyasheva et al. (Sun,) studied this question.