"Time" Spent in Youth's “Global Information Space” (Problems of Satisfaction of Reading or Information Need)

Abstract

The rapid penetration of the Internet into our lives has a profound effect on the reading habits of young people, and the concept of access to information is gradually becoming synonymous with the concept of reading. Until the last twenty years, young people have traditionally met their information needs through reading. It was formed as a result of long historical traditions. There has always been a significant difference between "heard information" and "read information". The percentage of "read information" by young people with higher education should have been higher than the percentage of "listened to information". This percentage determined the intelligence of the young man and expressed his social and cultural qualities. Surveys show that young people spend "time reading" on the Internet and are content with getting "episodic" information instead of classical reading. Also, reading is not one of the main activities in the organization of leisure. Here, too, the main place is occupied by the Internet. Over the past twenty years, the “time” spent on the Internet has been growing dynamically and is crowding out various traditional activities for young people. Students of the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts created a working group to study the classical reading skills of young people, conducted surveys and obtained interesting results. To study the classic reading habits of young people belonging to different categories, and to compare the results obtained, it is necessary to have certain standards and norms. Unfortunately, although the results are not comparable with other regions, in a country with a population of ten million and 54 universities, the attitude of young people towards classical reading reveals a certain pattern.