Informational hygiene as a new topical branch of hygiene of children and adolescents

Abstract

There were analyzed psychogygienic problems of the impact of the informational environment on children and adolescents. Their scope and controversy are shown. There are considered such problems related with virtual reality as clip thinking, consciousness manipulating, network self-identification, Internet dependence. The possibility of the creation of a knowledge-based society is set against a change of the development of consumer society. As a basic method for adaptation of children and adolescents to permanently informational environment there is proposed the aim-oriented development of cognitive and creative abilities and also skills ofknowledge extraction form information. The delivery of psychohygienic technologies for the work with information will allow to withstand against a destroying effect of mass culture and to use resourcefully opportunities of non-linear virtual environment.