Formation of the worldview of young people in the digital environment

Abstract

The subject of the article is the formation of the worldview of young people in the digital environment. To obtain information on the formation of the worldview of the younger generation in the digital environment and its subsequent processing, the authors conducted a sociological study: expert interviewing and expert survey. The results of the study allow us to study the increasing influence of the digital environment in the process of formation of the worldview of young people. At the same time, digital communication mechanisms, ICT, neural networks and artificial intelligence algorithms are beginning to play an increasing role in shaping the worldview. The peculiarity of ICT is its rapid development and penetration into all spheres of society. Negative aspects are manifested in the possibility of spreading values, negatively influencing the formation of traditional world-view. The regulation of the Internet is a subject of acute controversy in society. In the course of the study the attitude of young people to digital communication mechanisms, neural networks, algorithms of artificial intelligence and their impact on the formation of traditional world-view of the younger generation was analyzed. Theoretical results of the study adds to the accumulated knowledge by obtaining relevant data on the formation of worldview of the younger generation in a digital environment and allows you to understand their influence in this process, clarify the semantic content of the concept of "world-view". That in the future will help other authors to continue research on this topic.