信息技术、数字鸿沟与社会公正——新技术风险的社会治理

Information Technology,Digital Divide and Social Justice——The Social Governance of the Risks of Emerging Technologies

本文聚焦信息技术扩散及其社会风险治理,对中国青年群体的信息技术产品使用状况进行了研究。研究选取3104个样本,以电视作为传统信息通信技术的代表,手机和电脑作为新兴代表,对该群体首次使用信息技术产品的时间、使用频率和主要用途三个指标进行了调查。研究显示,信息通信技术的扩散存在结构性差异,使用电视的时间分布最为均衡,使用电脑的人群分布差异性最大。在科技治理能力现代化建设中,应当充分考虑新技术扩散可能导致的社会风险,推动技术产品的均衡分布,预先化解社会风险。

This paper focuses on the information technology diffusion and social risk governance, and studies the usage of the information technology products among the Chinese teenagers. Selecting 3104 samples in total, it investigates three indexes： the firstuse time, use frequency and main applications of the products in the teenager group. It shows that there exists structural difference in the diffusion of information and communication technologies, with most balanced in the time distribution of TV watching, and most unbalanced in the population distribution of computer using. In the modernization of science and technology governance, the potential social risks caused by new technologies should been taken a full consideration and dissolved in advance, especially by facilitating the equilibrium distribution of technological product in different social groups.