Modern gaming devices in the lives of children and adolescents: a sociocultural analysis

The article examines the social and cultural peculiarities of entering into the everyday life of younger generations, children and adolescents electronic devices and technologies. Large statistical and empirical material illustrates the effects of gadgets on children's lives from the point of view of using them primarily gaming and communication options. Especially given the attitudes of children of different ages in the use of and requirements for electronic devices. There is a General conclusion about the historical inevitability of changes in the sociocultural reality under the influence of information technologies. The article is addressed to all interested in the problems of transformation of contemporary social and cultural processes and features of the new information society.