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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION OF INDIVIDUAL WITH INTERNET-COMMUNITY

K. D. Dilovarovich, K. G. Hamzeevna

Abstract

The article studies the different aspects of the person’s integration into culture and the society. Namely there is a characteristic of the Internet society represented by some leisure groups or clubs united by the shared interests that contribute to the integration of the personality into the leisure space. There are given the pedagogical possibilities of Internet communities as a communicative-integration space of Internet. The author shares the view that the Internet communities function according to the communicative models of club activities, providing the constructive cooperation of its members, their spiritual, moral and social development. The base of my investigation is culture and leisure centers of Kazan and Tatarstan. The purpose of my work is to study and investigate same problems connected with the entry of Internet into the life of great number of people, especially of the disabled persons. One of these problems is a lake of special Internet technologies which may help to solve problems connected with acquiring of social and cultural information. Internet-community may involve disabled person because this is work, immersion, and connections that it represents. Thus, while the communitarian source of the Internet culture is highly diverse in its content, it does specify the Internet as a technological medium for horizontal communication, and as a new form of free speech. It also lays the foundation for self-directed networking as a tool for organization, collective action, and the construction of meaning. To consideration of the social and psychological changes happening to the personality shipped in new forms of social interaction virtual communications on the Internet. The Internet as global information space, includes a set of the network communities forming virtual reality. Of agents and actors of new reality of virtual persons are characteristic: virtual communications, network thinking, Internet mentality. Specific mental syndromes are peculiar to mentality of the Internet user: Internet phobias, fears, complexes. The article discusses the current problem of information socialization in relation to her teenage stage. Itis proved that the new information technologies are today both the means and the social environment of the individual in adolescence and early adulthood. It is argued that new information, the content expressed in the dynamics of the various areas of adolescent socialization. Firstly, the change itself communicative experience teenager by the occurrence and the increasing spread of «computer» language, which includes not only the new lexical and phraseological features, but also provokes the creation and dissemination ofnew communication standards. Secondly, active participation in online communication expands opportunities for its participants role experimentation and therefore provokes changes in their socio-role-playing experience. Third, the simultaneous inclusion in a variety of online communities creates active user conditions for the most self-controlled. Provides an overview of network communities asa new group of socialization at the stage of adolescence, their similarities and differences with the real groups belonging. In conclusion, the possible directions of socio-psychological studies of adolescents’ socialization of information associated with a number of issues: figuring out how to affect the experience of computer-mediated communication on the content of the communication of teenagers in social reality; definition of personality predictors of active use in adolescence; study of the relation and interaction of teenage self-determination and social construction of identity in the real and virtual environment. Highlights the ambiguity and lack of available empirical data that define the need for further research.

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