Expansion of Radical Political Ideas in Digital Society

摘要

Technological progress leads to the transformation of social environment, generating a digital society that exists in the context of new opportunities and new threats. The article is devoted to the problem of expansion of radical political ideas among the most active in the Internet space audience of young people (18-30 years). It is considered the features of digital communication channels, the main advantages of the Internet as a "space of freedom", characteristics of the political behavior of young people in digital society. Considering the new technological conditions, as well as the peculiarities of the perception of information by the youth audience, we can talk about favorable conditions for the expansion of radical political ideas among the most active users of the "digital reality". The main threats today are cybercrime, illegal trafficking in drugs and weapons, as well as the deliberate reduction of the authority of authorities at different levels, the promotion of terrorism. So, namely the youth audience is the most important target group exposed to the information impact during the hybrid wars, which is a new type of conflicts, characterized the digital epoch. It is proposed the measures to counter the expansion of radical political ideas among young people.