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 Variagina A.A. THE FEATURES OF РUBLIC 
PARTICIPATION OF YOUTH IN THE SOCIAL 
INTERNET NETWORKS 

Variagina A. A., Researcher of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the NationalAcademy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. 

Abstract 

The article presents the research of the possibilities of application of socialinternet networks in the process of public participation of youth. The author highlights the such main reasons for the increase of public participation in the Ukraine, that is observed in recent years, as: the exacerbate of socio-political events in the country (the events on the Maidan, the annexation of the Crimea, the war in the east of Ukraine) and the global tendency to the virtualization of social life. The development of information and communication technologies creates new opportunities for young people to participate in public and political processes of society. The social internet networks (which are the new social structures that composes of many members and the varied relationships between them - dating, friendship, cooperation, communication and so on) are becomes the environment for communications in the internet space, a meeting place for young people. The author reveals the reasons for the attractiveness of the social internet networks for young people, analyzes the functions and features of social internet networks as platforms for the implementation of their rights to participate in public and political life of the state.. The author shows the role of social internet networks in the process of formation of civil society in Ukraine. The author focuses  attention on need the study of social and procedural determinants appearance and implementation of public participation, on conducting system analysis of structural and semantic characteristics of social and psychological factors of web-based participation, in particular it’s direction such as participation in social internet networks. 

Key words:  public participation of young people;  social internet networks;  web-based public participation;  young people.

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