Digital Networks and Suggestions in the Fabric of Virtual Communications

Trends related to the development of digital technologies and their impact on the social and humanitarian sphere continue to be relevant. The emergence of digital networks not only leads to the expansion of social connections, but also forms the trend of transformation of digital networks into augmented reality, which displaces the living space of nature from the lives of young generations. Deepening of the transformations carries certain risks, since it becomes a source of generating cyber reality, an environment of unpredictable communications. It escapes attention that techno-networks, created initially for the transmission of formalized information flows, are beginning to be mastered by a person for a new type of resources as a space of intersubjective communication. As a result, due to the lack of the necessary cultural field, a qualitatively different, surrogate interaction develops. Under these conditions, the simplest communication models are implemented, based solely on the personal psychological experience of each of the participants, who hide in the digital world from the complexities of real life. For a modern person, the web becomes a space of illusory openness, a zone of serious risks and qualitative changes. The article examines how quickly each member of society gets involved in the new, digital format of interaction and hi-tech communications, and how this practice determines the person’s perception of the world, their cognitive activity. Essentially, it is necessary to clarify how the “web” or “net” space has created the prospects for the development of a real person, carrying a natural potential, and how high the psychological risks of imprinting, suggestive suppression of creative forces in the new topos of communications are. It is also important to raise the issue of formulating expert assessments of the development of networks for humans. Is it possible to consider today’s issues as a natural stage in overcoming the problems of self-realization of a person’s creative potential, or is this due to the fact that in a digital network a person develops not as an autopoetic integrity, but as a being partially prosthetic in audio-video format? Such specific activity impose restrictions on the process of cognition of the world by a person, on their worldview, and affect their independence and behavior. It is important to understand whether a human-sized network adequate to the person’s complexity is possible, and how the modern social environment, human culture, can be enriched with the network potential, new communications.

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