媒介化社会背景下城市青年群体的社交媒体使用与养老风险感知

The Use of Social Media and Risk Perception of Old-age Care Among Urban Youth in the Context of a Mediatized Society

在青年群体陷入养老焦虑的社会背景下,社交媒体在网络空间打破了城市青年群体体制内外的身份区隔,“焦虑的一代”成为他们共同的身份标签,并在与其他社会群体的对立中加强了认同。对于青年群体而言,社交媒体成为其养老风险感知的催化剂和按摩器。对社交媒体的信任调节了平等主义价值观对养老风险感知的影响,青年群体一方面相信社交媒体上关于养老问题的看法,另一方面也对政府有能力解决问题充满了信任,但是归责集中到了专家系统。在阶层、城乡、贫富、性别等议题构成了新的风险主题的社会,对养老风险的关注是对风险主题的拓展,这在某种意义上为中国风险社会的媒介化治理提供了更丰富的经验材料和理论启示。

In the societal context where the young generation is immersed in old-age care anxiety,social media breaks the identity gap between the urban youth group inside and outside the system.The"anxious generation"has become their common identity label,strengthened amid opposition to other social groups.For young people,social media acts as a catalyst and massager for their perception of old-age care risks.Trust in social media moderates the impact of egalitarian values on the perception of old-age care risks.On the one hand,young people believe in the views on old-age care issues on social media.On the other hand,they completely trust the government′s ability to solve these problems,though respon-sibility is often attributed to the expert system.In a society where topics such as class,urban-rural di-vide,wealth disparity,and gender constitute new risk themes,the focus on the old-age risks expands the scope of risk topics,which in a sense provides richer empirical materials and theoretical insights for media-based governance of China′s risk society.