DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILDREN’S INTERNET SEGMENT: AGE CHARACTERISTICS IN VARIOUS ELECTRONIC CONTENTS

Abstract

 The Internet is an indisputable factor in the development of society, children, and teenagers in particular. It becomes our daily companion; some are so immersed in the World Wide Web that they lose touch with reality. Young people, especially teenagers, are the most impressionable audience, so it is important to know and evaluate the content they are viewing.  The article examines surveys from which it is possible to analyze the behaviour of children and adolescents in the Ukrainian-speaking segment of the Internet during the last 20 years. Unfortunately, few such studies were conducted, although they did not provide any answers to the questions about the correspondence between the needs and interests of schoolchildren and the reality of electronic children’s content. However, by comparing existing data, it is possible to form an idea about the activity of children and adolescents in the information space and identify trends.