融入与“断连”:老年群体ICT使用的学术话语框架分析

Inclusion and Disconnect:Framing Analysis of Studies on Use of Information and Communication Technology among Senior Citizens

本文通过对国内有关老年群体信息传播技术(ICT)使用的学术话语展开框架分析,阐释了框架的建构及其背后的预设。分析发现,既有研究的话语框架倾向于将老年群体的"断连"(disconnect)行为问题化,强调数字融入的积极影响和断开连接的负面影响,并将问题归因为老年群体对技术的恐惧和新媒体素养的匮乏,呼吁通过文化反哺等社会干预策略让老年群体"跑步"进入数字化。本文提出将"断连"视为一种文化现象加以考察,探寻其中所编织的意义之网,丰富老年群体的信息传播技术使用的面向。此外,置身于无处不在的"连接文化"之中,应当营造一个对老年群体更为友好的基础设施环境与语言环境,在公共生活中提供多种选择的可能。

Using framing analysis,this paper studies the academic discourses on the use of information and communication technology among senior citizens in China,in order to interpret the discourseconstruction and the assumptions behind them.The findings imply that the frame of existing studies tends to define"disconnect"as a problem and emphasize the positive impact of digital inclusion and the negative effect of disconnect.Since the frame attributes the problem to the seniors’fear of technology and their lack of new media literacy,it suggests families and the whole society to use social intervention strategies,like culture feedback,to drive senior citizens"run"into the digital.This paper proposes a cultural understanding of disconnect to investigate the webs of significance and to enrich the apprehension of senior citizens’life stories.Although the structure of the opportunity to refuse to integrate is rapidly shrinking in the ubiquitous"culture of connectivity",this paper argues that it is necessary to create a friendlier infrastructure environment as well as language environment to the elderly,Providing multiple choices in public life.