Generation Z: basic concepts, characteristics and current research

In recent years, digital communications have rapidly entered the lives of modern people. Globalization of digital technologies is solved in Russia at the state level – Federal programs of digitalization are created and implemented. They are aimed at the inclusion a person in the virtual space since the very childhood which undoubtedly affects many aspects of the human life. Thus, children developing in the context of the global spread of digital technologies have been called “generation Z”. Of course, this category of children could not go unnoticed by many domestic and foreign scientists. In this article, the authors provide an overview of studies devoted to the study of the “digital generation”.