General Trajectories of Using Resources of Student Youth Communicative Practices on the Internet

Abstract

Currently, there is an increasing interest in the study of various aspects of the development of social networks, their dominance or addition to real communication. Student youth are increasingly supplementing real communication with virtual ones through social networks, which are the dominant feature of young people's everyday communication. The transformation of the conditions of socialization of the younger generation determines the need for diagnosing the priority of choosing social networks, analyzing the thematic orientation of formulating students' requests in the Internet space. The aim of the study is to analyze the general trajectories of using network resources of students' communicative practices on the Internet. The analysis is based on the data of the questionnaire survey “Study of social networks of student groups (on the Internet)”, undertaken by the authors in September-November 2022. It was attended by young people studying at BSTU. V.G. Shukhov city of Belgorod. The results of the study showed that social networks are the most popular type of Internet resources among students. The most popular social networks among students are VKontakte and Telegram. The duration of students' stay in social networks is mostly from 3 to 4 hours. Despite the assumption about the possible predominance of virtual communication of young people due to increased activity in the use of Internet resources, there is a continued interest in offline communication practices.