Keyword: «network subculture»

An attempt is made in the article to identify the theoretical prerequisites for studying the characteristics of the experience of loneliness in adolescence, with different degrees of belonging to the network subculture. The author analyzes the notions of youthful age as a stage of active development of self-consciousness and the associated occurrence of loneliness, and also data from various studies and references to the experience of loneliness, characteristic of a high degree of belonging to the network subculture. The article concludes that the prerequisites for studying the characteristics of the experience of loneliness in adolescence with different degrees of belonging to the network subculture lie in the field of the characteristics of the youth itself, the specificity of the network subculture as a communicative environment, as well as the risks associated with avoiding reality in the network subculture.