An Impact of Social Networks Cyber Ethics on the Modern Identity Formation

Authors

  • Vladimir PYZH National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft
  • Mariya PREDOVSKAYA National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft
  • Elena TEBYAKINA Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
  • Vera MAYEVSKAYA Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics
  • Karina OGANYAN National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v13i2.235

Keywords:

virtuality, network hierarchy, game, identification mechanism, security, information society, cyberspace

Abstract

An ability to instantly transmit and replicate information provides new means of identity construction and their impact on a person’s identity in the modern world. One of them is a social network as a form of interactive sociality transferred to virtual space. Social networks place a variety of entertainment content, provide access to information or means of further work with it at the users’ disposal, and affect the person’s perception of the world and himself. The paper explores some aspects of social networks functioning, which affects the modern person’s identity. It is observed that the process of self-assertion as a virtual person is not just a game for fun, but both a potential danger and a new space of creative self-realization in the information field, which can change significant aspects of the user's identity including ethical ones.

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Author Biographies

Vladimir PYZH, National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft

(Dr. of Science in) is the head of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft, St. Petersburg. His research areas cover the history and methodology of science, theory of politics, geopolitics, national security, political problems of international relations and global development, regional aspects of economy. He has published 5 monographs and more than 50 articles. In particular: “Geopolitics as a World and Social Phenomenon”, “Sports and Politics: Implementing Sports Humanistic Ideals and Values”.

Mariya PREDOVSKAYA, National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft

(PhD in Philosophy) is Associate Professor at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft, St. Petersburg. Her research areas include problems of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture, cultural identity, everyday practices and anthropology of sports. She has published one monograph and more than 20 articles. In particular: “Philosophical Anthropology as an Integrative Form of Knowledge”, “Transformational Cultural Identity in Network Space”, “Body Image and Depersonalisation in Sports and Sports Computer Games”, “Computerisation and Body Image Change in the Culture of the Late 20th Century”.

Elena TEBYAKINA, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

(PhD in Philosophy) is document specialist at Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg. Her research areas include problems and basic tendencies of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of the game, identity problems. She has published 7 articles. In particular: “An Impact of Technical Sciences on a Person: the Problem of Constructing Identity in the Information Society”, “Game as a Philosophical and Anthropological Phenomenon: Main Features, Characteristics and Peculiarities”, “Playing an Ethnic Musical Instrument: Philosophical and Anthropological Aspect”, “Game as a Form of Communication: Anthropological Features”, “Philosophical-Anthropological Analysis of the Game Phenomenon”.

Vera MAYEVSKAYA, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics

(PhD in Philology) is Associate Professor of the English language Department #2, The Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia). Areas of interest include problems of the language realisation of the creative subject in the artwork, categories of integration and cohesion of poetic text; the use of new technologies of teaching English in high school and the issues of international higher education. She has published 3 monographs, 90 articles, among them, are “The Role of Fiction as a Motivating Factor in Teaching Business English”, “Authors Modality in Dickens's World”, “Structural and Semantic Functions of Oxymorons in the News-Papers Headlines”.

Karina OGANYAN, National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft

(PhD in Sociology) is Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P. F. Lesgaft, St. Petersburg. Her areas of scientific interest include theory and methodology of human sociology and psychology. K. Oganyan is the author of 8 monographs and more than 100 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Multidisciplinary researches of personality in sociology”, “Social technologies of forming leaders: characteristic features of future leaders”, “History of Russian sociology”.

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2019-12-26

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PYZH, V., PREDOVSKAYA, M., TEBYAKINA, E., MAYEVSKAYA, V., & OGANYAN, K. (2019). An Impact of Social Networks Cyber Ethics on the Modern Identity Formation. WISDOM, 13(2), 104–119. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v13i2.235

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2019): 2-2019

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