Information and communication environment as a cultural factor of childhood

This article is devoted to the items which are connected both with ontogenetic polyfunction of childhood (which determines informative and communicative orientation of person in this period) and with specific of modern informative and communicative sphere as a determine factor of personal development. Also the article concerns some forms of existence of this determination and points out some reasons of it. The conclusion which is made shows that the main problems of determination of childhood by informative and communicative sphere are caused by such characteristics of childhood as informative and communicative orientation, lack of critical and