ANALYSIS OF TRENDS IN CONSUMPTION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION IN THE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Author(s): Flerov O.V., Kutaitseva O.N., Bakhmetiev V.A.

Rubric: Educational environment

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2023-2-13-26

Release: 2023-2 (43)

Pages: 13-26

Keywords: digital environment, Internet evolution, information resource, information activity

Annotation: The article describes the phenomenon of excessive information consumption, which is increasingly mentioned both in corporeal and social discourse. On the background of evident “digital saturation”, a hypothesis of probable decreasing interest in the internet as daily information space in the nearest future is proposed. In order to justify this hypothesis, the reasons for internet gaining popularity are analyzed beyond evident technological context. As a result, it was stated that there is an overdue internet crisis coming from technological forms of information exchange getting a huge handicap of digital information content quality. The research draws parallels with television as the main predigital information space that gained and lost its popularity in the previous century for similar reasons. It is concluded that reducing the mass consumption of digital information and reducing the popularity of digital resources can have such positive effects as improving their quality and rationalizing the information behavior of users.

Bibliography: Flerov O.V., Kutaitseva O.N., Bakhmetiev V.A. ANALYSIS OF TRENDS IN CONSUMPTION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION IN THE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2023. – № 2 (43). – С. 13-26. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2023-2-13-26