What is it about?
A digital culture is such a vast and complex concept that is often difficult to define. However, using just a definition does not answer the question: what are digital culture and Internet slang? To gain a deeper understanding of а digital culture, you need to understand what makes a digital culture as it is. It is becoming increasingly clear that this area can be successfully explored only through the joint efforts of humanitarian, social, cultural and technical scientists, and therefore the integration and structuring of existing disciplinary approaches and results are necessary. Our research does not consider digital culture in terms of professional subculture, understanding of modern information technologies, their functioning, and professional language. In our research, the digital culture is considered in the range of the Internet user’s personality. The topicality of the research is that digital culture and Internet slang are «interdisciplinary categories, with the help of which it is possible to analyze problems of cultural identity», mutual influence of culture and slang in the system of unified computer networks.
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Why is it important?
We have seen how the speed and the spared of digital technology and the digitization have led to the emergence of a digital culture of Internet service users, which has potentially embraced all aspects of everyday life and provided a new field for research and analysis of cultural forms. Research on human connectivity and digital technology has already led to the emergence of such disciplines as digital linguistics, digital culture philosophy, digital ethnography, digital anthropology, technological anthropology, virtual anthropology, cyborg anthropology, Internet studies, information studies, eHistory, eHumanities, eScience etc. There is a new understanding of the digital world through language, social relations and practices. New research in digital culture is leading to a new digital language.
Perspectives
Digital culture is similar to Internet slang - relatively new phenomenon that has not yet been widely spread in research. However, as this is gradually becoming the norm for global outreach to the audience around the world, both professional and academic interests in this field is growing exponentially, and is already characterized as a challenge to the scientific world because of techno-human synthesis, which is taking place in more aspects of all generations than ever before. The evolution of digital cultural and linguistic development can be defined as the result of a multiplication operation in which culture and language are multipliers and information communication technologies are co-multipliers. The consequence of this work is evolution, in most part, is the evolution of the younger generation, the representatives of the young people become similar to cyborgs, «multifrenies», or fragmented versions of «I». They always exist in tandem with technology. In general, it can be said that the Internet is a cognitive revolution that has created a new Internet culture and a new Internet slang that has no age or geographical boundaries.
Associate Professor Yulia Andreevna Petrova
Rostovskij gosudarstvennyj ekonomiceskij universitet
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This page is a summary of: The impact of the development of information technology tools of communication on digital culture and Internet slang, SHS Web of Conferences, January 2021, EDP Sciences,
DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/202110101002.
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