Open AccessAn impact of social networks cyber ethics on the modern identity formation
Author(s) -
Vladimir Pyzh,
Mariya Predovskaya,
Elena E. Tebyakina,
Vera Mayevskaya,
Karina Oganyan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
wisdom/imastut'yun
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2738-2753
pISSN - 1829-3824
DOI - 10.24234/wisdom.v13i2.235
Subject(s) - identity (music) , internet privacy , thriving , variety (cybernetics) , assertion , sociality , virtual world , sociology , field (mathematics) , social psychology , digital identity , virtual space , social identity theory , space (punctuation) , social network (sociolinguistics) , computer science , psychology , social group , computer security , world wide web , aesthetics , human–computer interaction , social media , social science , artificial intelligence , art , mathematics , ecology , access control , biology , operating system , pure mathematics , programming language
An ability to instantly transmit and replicate information provides new means of identity construction and their impact on a person’s identity in the modern world. One of them is a social network as a form of interactive sociality transferred to virtual space. Social networks place a variety of entertainment content, provide access to information or means of further work with it at the users’ disposal, and affect the person’s perception of the world and himself. The paper explores some aspects of social networks functioning, which affects the modern person’s identity. It is observed that the process of self-assertion as a virtual person is not just a game for fun, but both a potential danger and a new space of creative self-realization in the information field, which can change significant aspects of the user's identity including ethical ones.