The active development of digital technologies has had a significant impact on the educational process. Higher education institutions en masse switch to distance learning courses, vlogs, video hosting, popular science educational platforms. All of these platforms provide lectures in various branches of knowledge, regardless the curriculum, level of education, or even professional orientation. The development of modern media formats implies the possibility of active interaction with content. Can the format of video lecture meet these requirements? Or does the content consumer remain passive and cant influence anything? How long will such training format exist, and what are its prospects? In such rapidly changing conditions of life, the skills of flexibility and adaptation are applied to the educational process and teaching formats likewise. To improve the efficiency of work, everyone, including teachers, lecturers and students, needs to quickly adjust and adapt. The authors of the article attempted to explore the popularity and effectiveness of video lectures, identify the problems related to this form of teaching, and offer some possible solutions to create an educational model of online interaction that would promote the development of communication and learning skills.

The article discusses the problems of studying aggressive socially dangerous behavior of youth. A review of theoretical representations about aggression is given, the views of representatives of biological, biosocial and social scientific directions on the causes of aggressive socially dangerous behavior are described. The history of construction and the current state of research of aggressive socially dangerous behavior of youth is presented. The problems of studying this issue associated with a wide variety of causes, forms and types of aggressive behavior are considered. New, insufficiently studied forms of aggressive behavior that have recently emerged among young people are being observed. The major directions in the study of aggressive socially dangerous behavior of youth, including biological, social, legal and psychological aspects are defined. It has been established that the main task of such interdisciplinary research is to define the complex of determinants and factors inhibiting aggression in the youth environment, with the aim of developing effective preventive measures.

The article examines verbal manipulation techniques in popular youth pads. The particular techniques of verbal influence are identified and analysed taking into account linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The paper argues that the analysed text will be communicatively efficient because authors’ intention is successfully realized through cognitive, logical, rhetorical, lexical and other linguistic means and through presuppositions, which become a distinctive feature of modern publications.

The research featured suggestive potential of religious discourse. The authors interpret suggestion as an effective tool that allows its users to plant an idea or attitude into the mind of the recipient, the latter being unaware of the object of suggestion. The paper focuses on the problem of interaction between rational and emotional-subjective sides of communication. Suggestion is defined as a way of linguistic manipulation based on the sensory-associative sides of consciousness. The authors study the means and methods of linguistic manipulation of personal attitudes using religious texts as specific examples. The suggestion makes the recipient adopt and include new information in the existing system of views, thus leading to a certain transformation of the worldview, which changes the motivational basis of behavior and may trigger hostile intentions and extremist actions. Suggestive techniques make it possible to avoid legal punishment by disguising facts that can be used to prove the presence of conflict-generating elements in the discourse. Such texts are used to create a certain emotional state, thus facilitating motivation, further contacts, and formation of opinion.