TROLLING IN THE INTERNET SPACE AS A RESULT OF DEVIANT INTERNET SOCIALIZATION
The article describes users with a deviant direction of Internet socialization. The author points to the mythology of their thinking, which is expressed in destructive ideas about the role of the Internet in human life. The article notes that for this group of users, the Internet appears to be in the top three institutions of socialization of the individual, and the first mechanism of socialization in the hierarchy is the mechanism of self-expression. The motives for replication and contribution become the leading motives. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the personality traits of trolls. The purpose of the article is to analyze the social and psychological analysis of trolling as a result of the deviant direction of Internet socialization of the individual in the Internet space. The empirical research revealed the fact that the social experience of the user changes in the course of Internet socialization. One should note that Internet users with a deviant direction of socialization in the Internet space are more often active and overly active with sufficient or high level of instrumental competence. These users are characterized by the idea of the role of the Internet as a space of impunity, chosenness. Based on the results of the study, the leading motives of using the Internet space by the user with a deviant orientation include the motive of personal space, marked presence and replication, a combination of motives for contribution, replication in a deviant form of implementation. Users with a deviant orientation feel important and powerful.
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