TRANSFORMATION OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF STUDENT YOUTH IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL REALITY

The article deals with the transformation of youth values in the digital reality. Digital reality forms different value systems among young people. The new environment of social self-determination and self-expression of young people is a special single space in which most of the young people exist simultaneously in virtual and real life. The relevance of the study is predetermined by the need to study this problem and conduct scientific research aimed at analyzing the value systems broadcast in the digital environment. The author tried to find out what values and attitudes are behind the statements that the very concept of education in the classical sense is outdated, that higher education is doubtful, and self-learning is coming to replace it, and what role online learning plays in this. The purpose of the study is to identify the modality of the influence of digitalization on the value orientations of Russian youth, their characteristic behavior patterns, to show trends towards an increase in the importance of the value of education as young people become more involved in a virtual society. The research methodology is based on the concept of a stage model of digitalization, the concept of social Internet networks, the theory of the information age, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Secondary data of domestic and foreign sample studies devoted to the problem of changing the value orientations of student youth in the digital environment are used. A pilot survey of young users of social networks aged 18 to 27 was completed, the sample size was 228 people. The results of the study revealed the contradictions that arise from the serious transformation of basic values of society under the influence of the development of digital technologies and the improvement of digital innovations in the education system.