数字时代的童年危机与守护

Childhood Crisis and Guardian in the Digital Age

童年期是人类生命的初始阶段,童年对于儿童个体成长具有重要意义。但身处数字化时代,数字技术所裹挟的诸多风险正使儿童沦为数字化技术的奴隶,使得许多儿童的童年陷于消逝的危机之中,具体表征为:“虚比浮词”的网络世界掩埋儿童的时空感知、“人技交互”的网络媒介禁锢儿童的身体活动、“实时监控”的网络数据操纵儿童的认知思维、“纷纭杂沓”的网络讯息抑制儿童的自然本性。对此,基于现实的考量,化解数字时代的童年危机,应从加强儿童媒介素养教育、引导儿童回归自然生活、充盈儿童文化成长空间、织就政策法律保护屏障四个方面出发,建立多层面的体系,以望守护童年。

Childhood is the initial stage of human life,and it is of great significance for children’s individual growth. However,in the digital age,a lot of risks brought by digital technologies are making children become slaves to them,causing many children’s childhood are in the crisis of vanishing,mainly reflecting in the following facts:the cyber world with “virtual metaphors and pompous language”is burying children’s perceptivity about space and time,the network medium with“human-computer interaction techniques”is imprisoning children’s physical activities,the network data under“real time monitoring”is manipulating children’s cognitive thinking,and the mixed and disorderly information on the internet is restraining children’s nature. For this,based on the practical considerations,it is necessary to build a multifaceted system from the following four aspects in order to resolve the childhood crisis in the digital age,including enhancing children’s media literacy education,guiding children to return to natural life,enriching their room for growth with cultures and constructing the protective barrier with policies and laws,hoping thereby to defend childhood.