揭示香港"灰色数字沟"的细微差别:一个潜伏的个人资料分析
Bobo Hi-Po Lau1, Eric Ngai-Yin Shum1, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok2
1Department of Counselling & Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong KongChina.
PloS one
|July 9, 2025
概括
年轻人和老年人之间的数字沟仍然存在,老年人不太可能精通数字技术. 社会经济地位对所有年龄组的数字参与有重大影响.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 数字包容研究 数字包容研究
- 技术社会学技术的社会学.
背景情况:
- "灰色数字沟"限制了老年人获得信息,支持和福祉的机会.
- 尽管采取了诸如补贴和数字素养计划等举措,但消除这一差距的有效性仍然不确定.
- 香港高度数字化和COVID-19政策提供了一个独特的背景来研究流行病后的数字沟.
研究的目的:
- 调查数字参与的世代间差异.
- 在年轻人和年长的成年人中识别数字熟练程度的不同配置文件.
- 探索社会经济地位和社会接触对数字参与的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用以人为中心的方法对870名成年人 (18-54岁和55岁以上) 进行随机抽样.
- 通过电话采访收集数据,使用16个数字动机,访问,技能和使用指标.
- 隐性个人资料分析 (LPA) 用于识别数字参与概况.
主要成果:
- 确定了三个数字参与概况:熟练,中级和初学者.
- 观察到一个显著的代际差距,年轻的成年人主要是熟练 (90.2%),老年人在中级 (35.5%) 和新手 (5.2%) 档案中显示出更高的比例.
- 社会经济地位影响了所有年龄段的个人资料成员,个人资料成员与社会接触频率相关 (不包括家庭/亲属).
结论:
- 数字参与的类型突出了针对性干预的具体需求.
- 分段化策略对于实现所有年龄组的真正数字包容性至关重要.
- 解决数字沟需要考虑社会经济因素,以及特定年龄段的数字素养和访问计划.
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