Ways to broadcast destructive semantic components in social media content

Abstract

The use of the Internet by modern teenagers transposes their mental and social development
from a real environment to a virtual one, where new agents of influence, opinion leaders, and forms of
interaction appear. The results of content analysis for the presence of risks and threats in the content of
the Vkontakte network materials allowed us to establish a pervasive diffuse distribution of content that
threatens and contains risk factors for the psychological health of schoolchildren in almost all areas of
virtual communication. Destructive content is found in the following forms: news, specific surnames and
names, audio recordings of popular artists, videos, photos, collages, and specific reference to the groups
of suicidal orientation. These risks are difficult to control: large communities containing illegal
information are blocked, but a number of communities remain unnoticed by regulatory authorities, and
new ones appear instead of remote communities. As a result, there is aggressive and massive propaganda
of self-destructive behaviors, which is confirmed by thousands of destructive groups with hundreds of
thousands of participants. Modern schoolchildren are exposed to risks and threats to their psychological
health by consuming destructive content that is poorly controlled in cyberspace.