“知沟”视域下我国老年群体数字生存困境与应对

Digital Dilemma for the Aged in China from Perspective of Knowledge Gap Theory

自2020年新冠肺炎疫情发生以来,老年群体在数字时代所面临的“信息鸿沟”问题变得尤为突出,甚至影响到了诸多老年人,尤其是农村老年人的正常生活。如何应对后疫情时代老年人的数字生存困境,改善老年人的数字生活质量,已经成为我国政府及社会各界必须关注并尽快加以解决的重要社会问题。基于数字时代老年群体与其他社会群体间存在的“知沟”现象,通过分析我国老年群体数字生存现状,着重从政府、企业、家庭以及社会其他方面等,多纬度阐释应对上述问题的主要举措,以及未来可以进一步改进的路径,以期为我国应对老年群体数字生存困境的实践提供有益参考。

The“information gap”faced by the aged in the digital era has become particularly prominent during the epidemic in 2020,and even affected the normal life of the aged,especially the aged in rural areas.How to deal with the digital dilemma of the aged in the post-epidemic era and improve their digital life has become an important social issue that the Chinese government and all circles must pay attention to.Under this special background and based on the analysis of the current situation of the digital survival of the aged in China,this paper focuses on the main measures to deal with this problem from the fields of government,enterprises,families and society,as well as the possible ways to improve in order to provide useful enlightenment for the practice of coping with the digital dilemma of the aged in China.