Pilot study of individual features of communicative world in the context of the new type of mobility formation

Significant cultural and economic changes are now beginning to capture the most diverse spheres of society, allowing rethinking of personal and network communication in the new world. If a few years ago the idea of sharing things with an absolutely unfamiliar person might seem insane, then today we have more than 10 huge Internet communities uniting millions of people who are ready not only to share things, but also to share cohabitation and everyday life on absolutely free basis. Thus, the dawn of the co-consumption phenomenon is no longer a short-term trend or a superficial idea, thanks to the Internet, we now all live in a global village, which allows us establishing communications that used to happen only "face to face" in such ways and with such dynamics that previously seemed to us simply unthinkable. We move from passive consumers to creators, from the "I" culture to the "we" culture, and the Internet removes intermediaries in our communication, collective use occurs on a phenomenal scale. At the same time, the emphasis of understanding the individual socio-psychological factors in its personal and networked communicative worlds is also shifted. The emphasis shifts to the analysis of full-fledged partnerships towards "We" and "Mutual co-realization". As a clear example of the global Internet community manifestation, breaking our understanding of the trust principles and mutual exchange, we can cite the international hospitality network Couchsurfing. An interesting point is that the functioning of all these systems requires a degree of trust, and the key moment in their work is reputation. Now on the Internet we leave a trace, with every published idea, with every comment left, we actually show how well we interact and can or cannot be trusted. For a full study of the trans-communicative potential of personal growth of the virtual guest network participants, which has a significant impact on the changes in the communicative world of the modern person, a projective psychosemantic research technique "The Model of the Communicative World Modeling" was selected. The sample of the study was 100 people. The results of the research confirm and specify the problems, new dignities and specific features of a new type of personality that is actively developing and spreading in transcultural processes and in general in the socially developed part of the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Couchsurfers manifest themselves as "messengers" or "stalkers" of significant transcultural changes in an increasingly globalized modern society.

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