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Variagina A. THE FEATURES OF YOUTH PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN CURRENT SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT

 Variagina Alina, Researcher of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, 15 Andriivska Str., 04070 Kiev, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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 DOI https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2016.3.8388

Abstract

 The profound social and political changes that have happeed in Ukraine in the recent years (the events of the Revolution of Dignity, the annexation of the Crimea and military aggression in eastern Ukraine), made significant adjustments to life of young people, their behavior, socio-economic status and so on. Thereby the creation of favorable conditions for development and self realisation, formation of civic and national-patriotic consciousness of Ukrainian youth has become as relevant as never seen. An important step towards this perceived is understanding of the processes taking place within modern organizations and communities, doing the detailed analysis and identification of specific features of modern Ukrainian public participation of young people.

 The article presents the analiz of the current state, problems and possibilities of Ukrainian youth public participation in the current socio-political conditions. The author notes the changes in the nature of public participation of Ukrainian youth. The article indicates that the shares and targeted action participation is now mostly focused on peacemaking action and support of socially vulnerable groups. The author provides a list of obstacles of public participation of young people, among them: the lack of free time, the lack of faith in the possibility to change something, the lack of information about existing public initiatives, the distrust of citizens to the civil society organizations. This article describes the trends of public participation in a new and innovative schemes of social interaction via online social networks. The author analyzes the possibility of social networks as a «accumulator» of public sentiment. It expands the ability of social internet networks to influence on large-scale socio-political processes in the society.

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

  

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