УДК 378+364.6 Theoretical and practical foundations of the implementation of social media in the training and activities of social workers

Abstract

The article deals with theoretical and practical principles of social media realization in professional training and activity of social workers. The content of social media as an information resource is analyzed. Social media has been found to include: interactive web pages, blogs, microblogging platforms, photo and video sharing services. Methodological approaches to the possibilities and specifics of social media realization in professional training and activity of social workers are outlined, namely: institutional, socialization, personal, structural, constructive, legal, sociological, linguistic. The functions that perform social media are distinguished: information, intermediary, social-educational, organizational, social-creative, communicative. The need to use social media in the practice of social work as a modern and expedient tool was emphasized. The negative and positive aspects of social media that influence the formation of values of modern man are explained.