scholarly journals DISEMBODIMENT ON THE INTERNET AS A NEW FORM OF TECHNOLOGICAL SELF-ALIENATION (BASED ON THE STUDY OF STUDENTS OF HUMANITARIAN INSTITUTES OF HIGHER EDUCATION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
N.V. Kopteva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Cyber Culture ◽  
Internet Environment

Phenomenon of disembodiment of users of information technologies in virtual reality, in particular as a special form of self-alienation, was already noted by the first representatives of cyber culture. However, psychologists have not properly analyzed it yet, perhaps, due to the usual peripheral position of the problem of disembodiment of a physical body in psychology. In the present study we continue to develop our theoretical and empirical construct of the Disembodiment on the Internet (N.V. Kopteva, A.Yu. Kalugin, L.Ya. Dorfman) as a psychological impact of the use of contemporary information technologies in areas related to self-alienation and alienation. The construct is based on the conception of unembodiment of the mental self from the body by a British psychiatrist R. Laing, which is considered to be one of the fundamental psychiatric conceptions of disembodiment of the physical self. R. Laing’s description of the ‘detachment’ of schizoids from their own body helps understand the specifics of existential positions of embodiment - disembodiment determined by sociocultural, technological factors and choices made by individuals themselves. Our study was performed on a sample of active Internet users - students of humanitarian institutes of higher education (aged from 17 to 25 years) - with the use of the Disembodiment on the Internet diagnostic procedure. We revealed groups that differentiated in the severity of disembodiment and created their psychological portraits according to patterns of disembodiment, which include experience of unbodiliness of the virtual self, incompleteness and secondariness of the technological way of being limited by the Internet environment and Internet addiction. We also empirically detected the effects of disembodiment on the alienation of students in different aspects of their life (from who they are, from their families, in interpersonal communication, from their studies and the society) ranging from ‘vegetativeness’ to adventurism.

scholarly journals DISEMBODIMENT AND CHANGES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL BORDERS AS THE EFFECTS OF NORMATIVE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. MESSAGE 1

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Наталия Васильевна Коптева
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Real Self ◽  
Information Objects

В условиях глобального антропологического кризиса, связанного с распространением технологий, которые не соответствуют телесному опыту человека (В. А. Подорога), явно недостаточно психологических исследований, ограничивающихся констатацией феномена, называемого развоплощением (disembodiement), бестелесным статусом, дематериализацией, анонимностью пользователя в киберпространстве. Предлагается основанный на концепции британского экзистенциального психолога Р. Лэйнга авторский конструкт невоплощенности в интернете, представляющий собой последствие его нормативного применения. Формула «я» ↔ (тело–другой), «я» ↔ (тело–мир), которой Р. Лэйнг определяет клинический способ невоплощенного бытия в самом общем виде, соответствует как факту технологического развоплощения, так и технологическому способу невоплощенного бытия (при интернет-зависимости) со свойственным ему структурированием и ненормативной границей в ядре. Невоплощенность в интернете, создающая предпосылки путаницы на границе между Я и не-Я, сопоставляется с системообразующим измерением последствий нормативного применения информационных технологий в модели Е. И. Рассказовой, В. А. Емелина, А. Ш. Тхостова – изменением психологических границ. Делается вывод о том, что в информационную эпоху они устанавливаются в опыте двух Я, реального, подлинно основанного на своем теле, и виртуального, применительно к которому самовыражение «границы тела» теряет смысл. Расширение и размывание психологических границ соотносятся с виртуализацией Я-пользователя. Его субъективные убеждения в доступности и контролируемости других людей, объектов, информации, являющиеся критериями изменения границ, рассматриваются как вполне применимые к невоплощенности. В качестве ее собственных критериев, помимо рефлексии отстраненности от тела, названы чувство безопасности (в связи с анонимностью) и ощущения утраты реальности Я, неполноты, иллюзорности онлайн-бытия. While we live in times of anthropological crisis caused by spread of technologies which do not match to people’s body experience (V. A. Podoroga), only the insufficient number of psychological studies acknowledge the phenomenon of disembodiment. Some researchers refer to it as the bodiless state, dematerialization or anonymity of a user in cyberspace. In this study we suggest a theoretical construct of disembodiment on the Internet as the effect of normative use of information technologies. It is based on the conception by the British existential psychologist R. Laing. His formula of the self: self ↔ (body-other), self ↔ (body-world), which describes a clinical way of unembodied being, broadly corresponds to both the fact of technological disembodiment and a technological way of disembodied being in Internet addiction with its inherent structuring and a non-normative border in the core of the self. We compare the disembodiment on the Internet, which leads to confusion on the boundary between the self and nonself, to the framework consequence of the normative use of information technologies in a model by E. I. Rasskazova, V. A. Emelin and A. Sh. Tkhostov – changes of psychological borders. We come to a conclusion that In the digital age the borders are set in the experience of two selves. The real self is genuinely based on the body and the virtual self isn’t, to the extent when the very expression «boundaries of a body» becomes meaningless. Indefinitely expanded blurry borders correspond to the virtualization of a user’s self. The user’s beliefs that other people and information objects are available and controllable are symptoms of changes of borders and can also describe the disembodiment. The disembodiment is also characterized by feeling of disengagement from the body, sense of security on account of anonymity, deficit of reality of the self and incompleteness and illusiveness of the online existence.

scholarly journals Psycholinguistics of Virtual Communication in the Context of the Dependence on Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Olga Kaminska ◽  
Yuri Stezhko ◽  
Liudmyla Gliebova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Speech Genre

The article deals with the problem of determining psychological peculiarities of virtual communication of people, who in a great degree are characterized by dependence on social networks. The author of the article has done a comparative analysis of the peculiarities of cyber-communication of addicts and other Internet users. There were analyzed gender differences of virtual communication. It was established that in the contemporary society virtual communication had become more widespread especially if to analyze it according to the latest information technologies. In such a way the process of interpersonal communication is gradually supplanted by virtual means of transmitting information. The specificity of virtual communication was especially emphasized when the person used social networks which served to maintain contacts, to find like-minded people, to express emotional states, including those ones which were considered unacceptable by the society. There were determined psycholinguistic features of virtual communication in the Internet environment: psycholinguistic presuppositions, psycholinguistic semantic presuppositions, pragmatic, psycho-linguistically marked presuppositions. It was underlined that psycholinguistic presupposition is a special kind of logical mastering of virtual information, cognitive explication of frames by means of actualization of a common fund of knowledge of participants in communication about the world, its organization, the place of a person in it and others. Also, in the Internet environment psycholinguistic semantic presuppositions often take place. Them we’ll analyze as a certain semantic component of the message (statement, judgment), the inaccuracy of which in a particular situation makes the message abnormal or inappropriate. It was emphasized that in the space of virtual communication, the pragmatic, psycho-linguistically marked presupposition, which are a component of the message, the speech genre, and discourse (or a text), are directly related to subjective factors of Internet communication (orientation in different situations of virtual communication, actualization of social, cognitive, gender, etc., characteristics of people in one communicative act), the absence of which converts a message, speech genre, discourse (or a text), virtual communication in general into inappropriate – such as insincere, unnatural, provocative, that do not conceal positive conditions, which make a success in a whole.

ICT in Chinese Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1614-1627
Author(s):  
Xiaobin Li
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Network Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Education In China

A recent report from China Internet Network Information Center indicates that by the end of June 2015, 668 million Chinese have used the internet, which places China as the country with the most internet users in the world. As more Chinese get online, the internet has been integrated into providing education in China, where the age group using the internet the most often is between the ages of 20 and 29. Many of these youth are higher education students. With 34.6 million students the Chinese higher education system is the largest in the world, in which a significant proportion of the students' learning has been impacted by information and communication technology (ICT). The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of how the development of ICT in China has influenced higher education, what opportunities ICT offers for higher education, and what challenges Chinese face in further developing higher education with ICT.

scholarly journals Assessment of the readiness of the russian higher education for the digital economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Dneprovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Russian Education

The purposeof the study is to assess the readiness of the Russian higher education system to move to the digital level based on the statistical researches of education. The way to the digital economy becomes decisive in the development of Russian education and covers all its stages. Within the framework of the state program “Education development” the project “Modern Digital Educational Environment” is being realized, for the secondary education the “Digital School” project is being developed, and in the program of development of the digital economy a separate direction “Personnel and Education” is emphasized. Digitalization of education becomes the next stage after the informatization stage in the technological development of education. It is necessary to assess the current level of informatization of higher education.Materials and methods of research.The presented study of the assessment of the readiness of Russian higher education to the digital economy is based on the methodology, proposed by the World Bank, which includes an assessment of five groups of indicators: the use of information technology in the learning process; training of teaching staff for the use of information technology in education; informatization of education management; information infrastructure of higher education; normative and legal support of the digitalization of education. The methodology includes the combination and interpretation of the different statistical data because the appropriate study of digitalization of education requires the specific approach. The factual basis of the research is the data of official statistics and universities.The results, on the one hand, indicate a high level of provision of universities with personal computers and access to the Internet, and on the other hand, a lack of automation of the administrative and educational processes of the university. Despite the constant development of technologies and the emergence of new educational web tools, and a multi-year state policy on the information educational space formation, its potential is partly used by universities. Only one third of university students are trained using e-learning or distance education technologies. At the same time, non-state educational institutions provide most of the educational services available to online listeners. In general, the share of online education in the market of educational services is low and is 1.8% for higher education programs and 6.7% for additional professional education. 82% of students, enrolled in programs with exclusive use of e-learning are students of non-state universities. The use of technology, even in the form of blended learning, in addition to the corresponding IT infrastructure, requires the appropriate training of lecturers and students. The training of lecturers in the use of IT in education, including training directly to work with IT, should be supplemented by teaching methodical work in the information educational space.Conclusion. The study shows that the Russian education system has created the necessary reserve for the creation of IT infrastructure, regulatory support, and best practices in the field of IT application in the educational process, which should become the basis for the participation of Russian universities in the digital economy. At the same time, the differences between information technologies (IT) and digital are not obvious, in many respects, these concepts are identical, differences arise when considering the totality of the information technologies and resources involved. Digitalization assumes that practically all the computing devices are involved in information support, including consumers, who, for example, install mobile applications in order to use the services. Involving a large number of devices with the ability to connect to the Internet allows you to organize the collection and processing of a large amount of digital data. The basis of digitalization is the created IT infrastructure and the degree of informatization in educational institutions.

scholarly journals Information Technologies in the Space of Educational Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 03003
Author(s):  
Maryna Stryhul ◽  
Olena Khomeriki ◽  
Marianna Khomeriki ◽  
Nataliia Polovaia ◽  
Nelia Hryshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
The University ◽  
Special Studies

The article solves a scientific problem, the essence of which is the contradiction between the need to clarify the peculiarities of implementation of information and communication technologies in institutions of higher education of the technical profile and a certain deficit of special studies that would allow to meet this need. The situation is formulated in accordance with which in the sphere of social and cultural relations the preconditions for the use of Internet technologies are formed, but the managerial and directly educational levels of activity for the university are more promising «conservative» position, aimed at the phased and integration of these technologies in parallel processes of modernization higher education associated with the preservation of the quality of education, financial success of universities, etc. The modification of the network structure of education takes on special significance in connection with the emergence of new forms of social communication, including the innovative network learning, which becomes a social and communicative alternative to traditional education. Today, interpersonal communication, which is the sphere of the connection of new types and forms of communication without human being in the real environment, is determined precisely by the information culture of a person, which explains the human desire to learn in the new world on the basis of the use of information and computer technologies.

scholarly journals Providing the quality of the content of the official websites of contemporary establishments of higher education

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
Olena Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content

The article argues that the relevance of providing the quality of the official website content of modern universities is predetermined by the objective requirements of the present day, such as the priority of the state policy in the field of integration of higher educational institutions into the European education space, the globalization of information technologies and increasing of the Internet activity among the population. The subject of the study is the features of the websites' information content of the universities from different countries. It is determined that the website content of a modern institution of higher education contains information on various types of university activities (educational, scientific, pedagogic, financial, and marketing). The content of websites of foreign and universities was analyzed according to the following criteria: language; informativeness; utility; administrative and financial transparency; technical design. The analysis of website content of various universities was carried out in accordance the availability of information of university’s general characteristics, of the organization of the university’s educational process and features of student life, of university's scientific activities, of ways of advertising and the formation of a positive image of an educational institution in the imagination of Internet visitors. The attention is focused on the features of the websites' information content of the leading foreign and domestic universities. The main distinctions are in the ways of positioning the institution in the future; outlining the competitive advantages of an educational institution and highlighting the opportunities for improving the quality of the educational process; popularizing the university's scientific activities, and identifying the ways to confirm the reputation of the university. It is proved that the development of top-quality content contributes to the improvement of the image of the higher educational institution on the Internet, as well as increases the competitiveness of the university in the market of educational services both in the country and abroad. Awareness of the relevance of providing the quality of the official website content of the institution of higher education allows to tackle the problem of creating and distributing vital, unique, classified, and interesting information.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Interpersonal Siswa Pengguna Internet dan Implikasinya terhadap Layanan Bimbingan dan Konseling

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Winda Marnita ◽  
Riska Ahmad ◽  
Azrul Said
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Question Form

Interpersonal communication through the internet is now becoming a trend among the public, especially students. Online communication is of  interest by students because it is cheap, easy and fast. The Internet as a communication medium between the interpersonal students with parents, teachers and fellow internet users. The use of the internet as a medium of interpersonal communication understood the students well. Aspects that should be understood in communicating interpersonal are students use of the internet, the purpose of the use of the internet, openness, attention, empathy, equality. This research is descriptive research, the population in this study are students of SMP Negeri Padang 25 that become the subject of research is as much as 69 students, data collected by using question form. This study reveals students' interpersonal communication through the internet and the implications for guidance and counselling services. Because most of students have yet to understand and implement the aspects of the accommodation.

scholarly journals Unembodiment in the Internet. Part 2. Psychometric Verification of the Questionnaire

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-233
Author(s):  
N.V. Kopteva ◽  
A.Yu. Kalugin ◽  
L.Ya. Dorfman
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Embodied Self

The purpose of present study is to develop and verify the questionnaire aimed at assessing the degree of unembodiment in the Internet as a consequence of using modern information technologies. The use of modern information technologies is associated with disembodiment, liberation of the Self from the body and related experiences. Immersion in virtual reality and “disembodiment” can cause the existential position of “unembodiement”, the features of which, according to the concept of the English psychologist R. Lang, are most clearly manifested in the clinic of schizoids. The study was conducted in the form of a psychodiagnostic survey, during which the reliability and validity of the developed method for assessing unembodiement on the Internet was tested. The main sample of the study was 809 people (31% of males), mostly university students, aged 17 to 25 years (M=18.73; SD=0.98). Smaller samples were used to study convergent and discriminant validity: 423, 324, 148 and 128 people. Correlations with measures of psychological consequences of Internet use, self-efficacy and life-meaning orientations reported convergent validity, and correlations with measures of intelligence and creativity reported discriminant validity. The results of principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFI=0.936, TLI=0.925, RMSEA=0.055, SRMR=0.059) confirm the construct validity of the method, which includes three subscales (Unembodiment as Virtualization, The Preference of the Internet, and Vitality of the Embodied Self) and a general scale (Unembodiment in the Internet). The one-step reliability of the scales varied from 0.7 to 0.9. The scales Vitality of the Embodied Self and The Preference of the Internet had a high level of discrimination, the scale Unembodiment as virtualization ― moderate. The developed questionnaire meets the requirements of validity and reliability and can be used to study the phenomenon of unembodiment on the Internet.

scholarly journals Competence of Teachers and Psychologists in the Field of Information Security of Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
E.M. Shpagina ◽  
R.V. Chirkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Education System ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Thematic Plan

Protection of interests, personal development, health and well-being of children in the information sphere is now coming to the fore in connection with the rapid digitalization of everyday life. The article deals with the problems of influence of modern information technologies on the younger generation, approaches to risk reduction and information security of children, as well as the problems of formation of competence of teachers and psychologists in this area. Specialists and managers of the education system are faced with the task of educating parents and helping children to overcome the risks and dangers of the Internet environment. According to the authors, the competence of teachers in the field of information security of children should consist of a set of knowledge, including organizational, legal, organizational, technical, psychological and pedagogical aspects of the problem. The main focus of the article is on the legal, psychological and pedagogical aspects of information security of children, which determine the content of training of teachers and psychologists. An approximate thematic plan of the training course for managers and specialists of the education system is presented.

scholarly journals CREATION OF AN AUTOMATED MECHANISM FOR MONITORING THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES ON RUSSIAN-SPEAKING INTERNET USERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (73) (3) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
O. A. Gabrielyan ◽  
M. V. Gasparyan ◽  
I. V., Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Hidden Variables ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Intelligent Analysis ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Preparatory Stage ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Optimal Material ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Network Object

The study of Internet memes is undergoing significant transformations: from traditional approaches (semiotic, structural-functional) to innovative (network, object-oriented). In the Internet environment, memes have become the most important information carrier, which makes it possible to maintain multivariate communication. The elementary and at the same time capable of reformatting the structure of the meme, its high virulence led to the emergence of new communication strategies and the representation of current events. Memes act as the optimal material through the analysis of which all the specificity of virtual communications is revealed. New communications require the involvement of new methods of studying them with the use of automated and intelligent analysis of data received on a flow basis. Internet memes are a set of unstructured data, the study of which can lead to the identification of hidden variables and the determination of patterns of distribution of memes within the Internet and social networks in particular. This is especially true of political memes, the appearance of which can be regarded as a reactive or predictive indicator that allows you to monitor the dynamics of the political situation or predict it. The article provides information on the creation of the «Memometrics» software package, which allows automated search and collection of memes with their subsequent analysis. Special attention should be paid to the use of neural networks for offline data processing on the basis of self-learning. A base of memes, combined with a formal listing of reactions to a meme, can be a preparatory stage in the process of training a neural network.

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