跨越数字鸿沟和应对老龄化挑战都是当今中国社会所面临的严峻课题。它们统一于建设信息化社会的目标下,以加速经济发展,推动社会进步为宗旨。本文即从这两个时代任务出发,重点探讨了在中国社会信息化的整体进程中,老年人所处的信息阶层,老年信息群体的内部特征及我国跨越数字鸿沟的一系列方针政策对老年人产生的现实影响。本研究发现发达地区和欠发达地区、城市和乡村及精英阶层和草根阶层(主要以经济水平和教育背景划分)的老年人在跨越数字鸿沟运动中所受到的关注有着显著的差别,信息化的步伐也非常不一致。但由于互联网资源难以成为他们创造生产价值,延续生产力的工具,所以是否接入互联网及使用互联网能力的差别不足以激化到产生实质性的社会阶级分化的地步,也不会成为老年人贫富差距的主要原因。政府跨越数字鸿沟、促进信息社会发展的措施主要在简易网络终端、智能养老服务、保障社会参与、发展网络经济、提升信息素养方面与老年人有直接关联。但这些关联并非都具有积极推动意义,它们使老年人迈入信息化社会的前景更多元也更复杂。
<<Bridging digital divide and confronting ageing society are both challenging tasks that contemporary China society is coping with.They are integrated under the goal of building information society with the view to boasting economic and social developments.With this regard,this paper mainly discusses three questions:in the course of informationalization in China,which information class dose the older people group belong to?What are the characteristics of the senior information group?And how are they influenced by specific digital-gap-bridging policies carried out by Chinese government?Through content analysis on news reports with the theme of “older people using Internet”,two findings are generated:on one hand,digital divide embodied by regional,rural-urban,class differences are also salient in older age group;however,since they can barely make labor forces out of Internet resources,new social strata may not be resulted in accordance to their information holdings among the elderly;on the other hand,the strategies implemented by policymakers get in relation to the older people in following aspects:simplified Internet operation,intelligent nursing appliance and services,social participation,Internet economy,promoting information literacy.
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