Social and information space of student youth in a situation of uncertainty

Abstract

This article presents the results of the author’s study of the social and information space of student youth in a situation of uncertainty as a space of personal and professional self-determination of a student, formed in the process of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors formulate the conclusion that in the social and information space of student youth, the professionalization of the individual is carried out, determined by its position, value-motivational attitude to future professional activities, and its subject resource. As the analysis of studies on this problem has shown, in a situation of uncertainty, the development of the subject of educational activity is not only an internal state, but also the transformation of the conditions of interaction with information sources, first of all, with teachers who mediate interaction with information, and students in remote learning mode. The authors point out that under these conditions, a qualitatively new social and information space is being created. In such a space, the goals of educational activities are realized, which anticipate possible external-objective results in the online learning mode, and changes that occur in the subject and go beyond the situations, which have already existed. In other words, the acceptance of the anticipated future as an uncertain situation, but at the same time as desirable and purposeful desire to realize the opportunities that open up in it, is a significant factor in the formation of a specialist, as well as the formation of his activity. Based on theoretical analysis, the authors stated the existence of a contradiction between the accumulated scientific facts in this area and insufficient experience in building a social and information space in a situation of uncertainty. Characterizing the methodological problems of defining the concept of “information space,” the authors note that the concept of “global” information space acts as a set of various channels of information links. In general, this is a certain stable ordering of information processes, in which, in some way, the subsystem under consideration (in this context, student youth) can take part. But in reality, a certain “effective” information space is allocated for each of the subsystems, which is a systemic informational condition for its functioning and the implementation of specific acts of communication.