Youth in the focus of information and psychological war

The article deals with the phenomenon of the impact of information-psychological warfare on youth consciousness. In the article, the socio-political category «information-psychological war» is considered as a psychological impact on the civilian population, primarily on the younger generation, with the aim of demoralizing it and reformatting it with media. The Internet has made it possible to most fully synthesize modern psychotechnologies with information technologies, thereby effectively influencing the unconscious behavior of a person. In the article, the principles of modern information-psychological warfare, technologies of ideological, information-psychological and cultural influence on the younger generation are analyzed. The main directions of Westernization as a cultural expansion of the Western world by means of modern Internet technologies are indicated. The mechanisms of reformatting the consciousness of young people by means of network-centric technologies with manipulative and fake content are conclusively described. The article was prepared on the material of the scientific research AR 14869235 «Youth work as a condition for the successful socialization of young students», within the framework of the state grant funding of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.