Irrational aspects of Internet communication and virtual destruction of personality
The article is devoted to the analysis of the irrational attitudes of the subject's thinking in Internet communication. The problem is relevant, since the irrational thinking of communicants contributes to the uncritical perception of messages in Internet communication and, thereby, increases their susceptibility to manipulative influence. The terms "Internet communication", "media communication", "irrational thinking" are clarified. A possible version of the conceptualization of the "irrational" in communication through the prism of the methodology of modern cognitive psychology and psychotherapy is proposed, and the phenomenology of irrational attitudes and distortions of thinking is presented. The article analyzes modern Russian and foreign studies devoted to the possibilities of assessing the signs of irrational thinking in texts. The article describes the virtual destruction of personality as a result of the influence of media technologies on the identity of a person. Five effects of modern media technologies are formulated and revealed: 1) the formation of the illusion of joint activity, 2) the effect of the "spyglass", 3) the effect of negative reflection, 4) clip thinking, 5) "falling out" of time. It is assumed that the study of the peculiarities of the thinking of the subjects of communication will contribute to the construction more complete scientific model of persuasive aspects of Internet communication.