Information and Communicative Behavior of Users within Web Communities

Abstract

The need to study Internet-mediated communication is dictated by the fact that this type of virtual interaction is becoming in the modern world one of the leading types of communication. Ubiquitous penetration of information technologies leads to the fact that in modern society the relationships between people are becoming more and more virtual. The most significant is the expansion of virtuality in the social sphere. The article presents the author's classification of communicative roles of web community participants, the urgency of issues related to the study of socialization in cyberspace.