Intelligent Search for Strategies to Minimize the Risks of Internet Communication of Teens and Youth

Abstract

This article raises issues of children and young people communication safety in the Internet space. The materials of the article contain the results of an intellectual search conducted by the authors to compile a list of the most common risks of Internet communication faced by Russian children, or teachers and counselors working with children, including using the Internet, note the growth of these risks. Research design combines the following methods: social media analytics (provides content, dynamic, structural and discourse characteristics of relevant social media streams, including automatical metrics: tag cloud, audience activity markers, online opinion leaders, and so on) and eye-tracking for measuring perception of Internet memes by teens and youth. The article presents descriptions of markers that allow to identify these risks, possibilities of neurovisual correction of these risks, as well as makes recommendations for teachers and counselors, schools and universities, departments and agencies for social work with teens and youth to minimize them.