数字融合与边缘重生:新时期侨乡留守儿童的媒介使用与满足

Digital Inclusion and Rebirth in Marginal Area:Media Uses and Gratifications for Left-behind Children in Hometown of Overseas Chinese in the New Period

数字技术与学习困难研究成为近年来学习科学领域关注的新议题,从本质上看,这一议题实际上关注数字社会中个体的社会包容问题。以存在于发展中国家的边缘群体——侨乡留守儿童为研究对象,以数字融合为视角,基于传播学的使用与满足理论,对新时期侨乡留守儿童正式与非正式学习中的媒介使用现象进行了实证研究,提出数字媒介环境中侨乡留守儿童弥合数字隔离、实现边缘重生的可能及途径,为学习困难群体的数字融合提供物质可及、使用可及、精神可及、技能可及和政策可及等五个方面的对策,促进数字时代的学习公平与社会公正。

Digital technology and learning difficulty is a new topic in the field of learning science, which focuses on the indi- vidual social inclusion in digital society in essence. Based on the uses and gratifications theory in communication, from the perspec- tive of digital inclusion, this research conducts an empirical study on the media uses and gratifications of left-behind children in hometown of overseas Chinese in the context of formal and infbrmal learning, and explores the possibility and way to bridge digital ex- clusion and achieve rebirth in marginal area in digital media environment for the left-children. Five strategies （material accessibility, uses accessibility, mind accessibility, skill accessibility, skill accessibility and policy accessibility） are put forward on digital inclusion for the learning difficulty group, so the learning and social justice to some degree will be promoted.