Didyk L. Transformation of communicative practices of youth in social networks

The dissertation is devoted to consideration of communicative practices of young people in virtual social networks. The author substantiates the existence of a deficit of system-generalizing vision and modern sociological interpretation of the concept of communicative practices in social networks, the lack of purposeful study and sociological substantiation of the directions of transformation of communicative practices of modern youth in social networks. Since youth is the most important resource for social development, the peculiarities of its communicative interactions significantly affect the character of the development of all spheres of social life. Transformations of young people’s communicative practices, which are manifested both in the shift towards virtualization of communication and changes in the messaging system itself, result in dramatic changes in social interaction and require significant targeted changes towards the regulation of virtual social interactions. In the dissertation on the basis of systematization of existing knowledge about the phenomenon of virtual interaction, use of conceptual-interpretation resource of sociological construct of communicative-network practices and analysis of primary and secondary data of sociological researches, the scientific problem is solved – the specificity of social-network interactions and interactions are identified of modern youth in social networks (on the example of student youth).