Digital socialization of student youth: approaches, principles, levels
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2025.4.35-44
Abstract
This article presents a theoretical analysis of the digital socialization of student youth in the context of the transformation of higher education. Based on comparative and conceptual analysis, key paradigms for understanding this process–instrumentalist and transformative–are identified, and the author offers a definition of the phenomenon as a hybrid process determined by traditional institutions and an algorithmic internet environment. Three dimensions of socialization (cognitive, communicative, and identification), their principles, and factors are revealed. Digital competence is viewed as a result of socialization–a dynamic system of cognitive, operational, and valuereflexive skills. A gap between students' consumer practices and professional competencies is identified, and the need for innovative educational approaches is substantiated.
Supporting agencies: The paper was published at the expense of the subsidy allocated to Kazan Federal University for the project № FZSM-2023-0022 «Digital socialisation and digital competence of young people in the conditions of global systemic changes: regulation technologies, risks, scenarios» within the framework of the state assignment
About the Authors
A. M. Zakirov
Kazan Federal University
Россия
Россия
Zakirov Ayaz Maratovich, research assistant, postgraduate student in the Department of General and Ethnic Sociology at the Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications
Kazan, 420008
I. I. Shamsutdinova
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Россия
Россия
Shamsutdinova Ilsia Ildusovna, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Department of General and Ethnic Sociology
Kazan, 420008
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Zakirov A.M., Shamsutdinova I.I. Digital socialization of student youth: approaches, principles, levels. The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2025;(4(71)):35-44. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2025.4.35-44
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