Current issues of cyber socialization subjects of the educational process

The article examines the modern aspects of socialization of students in the cyber environment, as well as issues related to the education and development of students’ skills of a safe presence in the online space, motivating them to positive and creative activities in the virtual space. This topic acquires the greatest significance with the introduction of a distance education system in the context of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The object of the research is to generalize the existing approaches to the study of the process of cyber socialization. The subject of the article is the analysis of relevant and effective practices for the development of media and information literacy skills, including the interpretation of virtual content and its critical understanding by students. Within the framework of the article, the authors propose to get acquainted with the directions of educational work in the online space for the development of effective skills of cyber socialization of students.