FORMATION OF MORALITY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH BY PROTECTION FROM HARMFUL INFORMATION

Abstract

The article considers the Internet environment and mass media as powerful factors in the formation of socio-cultural norms and values. Particular attention is paid to content that has a potential impact on the moral development of personality in the course of its socialization. The experience of state and public regulation in the field of protecting children from harmful information is generalized. It is proved that the protection of children and young people is impossible without identifying concrete ways and means of introducing humanitarian expertise in the information sphere. It is determined that the purpose of public regulation of the information space is to protect children from the influence to which they are not ready due to their level of development, as well as creating a favorable environment for gradual maturation through the formation of clear value orientations of the individual.It is determined that the purpose of public regulation of the information space is to protect children from the influence to which they are not ready due to their level of development, as well as creating a favorable environment for gradual maturation through the formation of clear value orientations of the individual. The most promising direction is the psychological support of the development of personal information security skills for children of different ages and their parents: the ability to recognize false information, to identify manipulative influence, to develop the ability to critically understand perceived information, to withstand emotional and negative informational factors.Parents can act in a variety of ways to ensure the information security of children: through deliberate and selective use of the media, stimulating the critical attitude of children to information from various sources, and restricting access to potentially harmful content. But the main pledge of information security is the trust relationship between the child and the parents, the attitude of the elders as an authoritative source of moral norms and values. After all, it is the parents who must explain to the child what is good and what is bad, instill moral qualities. There is also an opposite view – fears about the negative impact of television, the Internet and other information resources are too exaggerated.