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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1683</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1705</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29901</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1683-2021-18-4-770-784</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PERSONALITY AND EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL DIMENSION</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЛИЧНОСТЬ И ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ В МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОМ ИЗМЕРЕНИИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Communication in a Multicultural Virtual Environment for Modern Slovak Students</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Современные словацкие студенты об общении в мультикультурной виртуальной среде</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3062-2284</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Tkáčová</surname><given-names>Hedviga</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ткачова</surname><given-names>Хедвига</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor of Philology, Doctor of Theology, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, доктор богословия, доцент факультета искусств и литературы</p></bio><email>hedwiga.tkacova@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1929-1894</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Králik</surname><given-names>Roman</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кралик</surname><given-names>Роман</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor of Theology, is Professor at the Medical Institute</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>профессор, доктор богословия, Медицинский институт</p></bio><email>roman.kralik73@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Catholic University in Ruzomberok</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Католический университет в Ружомбероке</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 18, NO4 (2021)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 18, №4 (2021)</issue-title><fpage>770</fpage><lpage>784</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-12-30"><day>30</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Tkáčová H., Králik R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Ткачова Х., Кралик Р.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tkáčová H., Králik R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ткачова Х., Кралик Р.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/psychology-pedagogics/article/view/29901">https://journals.rudn.ru/psychology-pedagogics/article/view/29901</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The necessity of establishing intercultural communication skills in children and young people is growing in the modern world. Expanding, extending the openness and accessibility of the Internet area, where diverse people with varied ideas, interests, and aspirations meet, plays a significant role in this process. Today’s youth are aptly referred to as “digital aborigines,” as they navigate the multicultural internet environment with ease, actively using modern technology that have already become a part of their daily lives. The goal of this study is to investigate the setting of an online multicultural environment from the perspective of Slovak university students, as well as to identify and analyze current problems that university students can see in online discussions about other cultures. A structured interview was used as the primary research approach. The results provide Slovak students’ perspective on the six most common topics that resonate in connection with different cultures on the current Internet: (1) concerns about one’s own safety due to “differences of others;” (2) misinformation on the Internet regarding “the difference of others;” (3) cognitive prejudice; (4) religious prejudices; (5) exaggeration; and (6) influencing audience emotions. This paper holds the view that modern young people should develop not only the ability to navigate in virtual reality, but also make daily personal efforts to overcome personal barriers and develop “intercultural media literacy,” which the authors define as the ability to acquire, in addition to digital competencies, intercultural understanding skills and apply these skills in practice in the process of communication in the Internet environment.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В современном мире возрастает значимость развития у детей и молодежи умений межкультурного общения. Важную роль в этом процессе играет расширение, повышение открытости и доступности интернет-пространства, где встречаются разные люди с разными взглядами, интересами и желаниями. Сегодняшних молодых людей справедливо называют «цифровыми аборигенами», легко ориентирующимися в мультикультурной онлайн-среде, активно использующими современные технологии, которые уже стали неотъемлемой частью их повседневной жизни. Целями исследования стали анализ контекста мультикультурной онлайн-среды с точки зрения студентов словацких университетов, выявление и оценка наиболее актуальных тем возникающих в интернете дискуссий, которые связаны с культурными различиями. В качестве основного метода исследования выбрано структурированное интервью. Результаты интервью отразили мнения словацких студентов относительно шести наиболее распространенных тем, связанных с представлением различных культур в интернете: 1) беспокойство о собственной безопасности из-за «отличий от других»; 2) дезинформация в интернете относительно «отличия других»; 3) когнитивные предрассудки; 4) религиозные предрассудки; 5) преувеличение; 6) воздействие на эмоции аудитории. Утверждается, что современные молодые люди должны развивать не только способность ориентироваться в виртуальной реальности, но и предпринимать ежедневные индивидуальные усилия по преодолению личных границ и развитию так называемой межкультурной медиаграмотности, которая понимается как способность приобретать, помимо цифровых компетенций, навыки межкультурного взаимопонимания и применять их на практике в процессе общения в интернет-среде.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>multicultural environment</kwd><kwd>virtual environment</kwd><kwd>intercultural media literacy</kwd><kwd>students</kwd><kwd>media</kwd><kwd>structured interview</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>поликультурная среда</kwd><kwd>виртуальная среда</kwd><kwd>межкультурная медиаграмотность</kwd><kwd>студенты</kwd><kwd>медиа</kwd><kwd>структурированное интервью</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Boroš, J. 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