Digital socialization, tag thinking and the modern educational process in the state legal dimension of Russia

The development of digital technologies at the end of the 20th century has led to the emergence of a new generation of human civilization - Generation Z. The members of the former possess a number of peculiarities that influence the development of a learner's personal potential. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid transition towards distance learning, the widespread use of digital education and the spread of artificial intelligence technologies. The task of the teaching staff is to level the negative features of new generations of students and, above all, clip (tag) thinking. Purpose: based on the analysis of the cognitive abilities of the Generation Z, the author proposes didactics and methodology of the interactive system of legal education that can take into account students' analytical abilities associated with the development of clip thinking. Methods: the author uses empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation as well as theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Special scientific methods such as comparative-legal and legal-dogmatic are used. Results: on the basis of a comparative legal analysis of scientific literature, the author defines the concept and features of a new educational virtual communication system for legal education with a view to forming a worthy member of civil society at the current stage of the development of the rule-of-law state in Russia.