摘要
大学生一直以来都被称为"网络的一代"。这一称呼一方面形象地概括了大学生群体的网络优势,另一方面却给该群体贴上了一个同质化的标签,导致其内部的网络使用差异未能得到足够的重视。本研究从多模态网络使用的概念出发,对大学生的网络使用差异进行描述,对产生这些差异的原因进行分析,并对多模态网络使用与政治知识和社会参与之间的关系进行探索。研究发现,月均花费越高的学生,对网络使用的多模态程度也越高。而大学生网络使用的多模态程度越高,其所获取的时政知识也越多,所参与的社会活动也越多。虽然大学生群体在年龄和教育程度上具有相对的同质性,但所在家庭的社会经济地位仍会在很大程度上影响大学生的网络使用模态,并进而对其社会融入产生影响。
Current college students have been called the ＂Internet generation＂ . While this label vividly highlights the technological advantages of this segment of the population, it overlooks the disparities of Internet use within this group. This study explores college students＇ differential Internet use through the construction of multimodal Internet use, which is arguably a better gauge of digital inequality. Rather than relying on traditional measures of user/non-user and information/entertainment uses, the study focuses on a broad scope of online activities and investigates them collectively. Results show that going online is a pro- gression with systematic differences between those who engage in more Internet activities and those with fewer activities. That is, the more modes of Internet activities people are engaged in, the more advanced uses they have. Nevertheless, the actual levels of multimodal Internet use are rather low and unevenly dis- tributed among college students. Monthly expense can significantly predict the level of multimodality, which in turn correlates with knowledge acquisition and civic participation. This reveals that, even within this somewhat homogeneous group, the socio-economic status of student＇s family still plays a vital role in their utilization of the Internet, and therefore has critical impact on their social inclusion. While previous research concludes that the type of Internet activities matters, this study suggests that it is the number of types, or the multimodality of Internet use, that matters in examining the potential inequality and its social consequences.
出处
《中国地质大学学报（社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2011年第5期90-96,共7页
Journal of China University of Geosciences(Social Sciences Edition)
基金
浙江省钱江人才计划社会科学基金项目"3G新媒体:使用模式与社会影响"(QJC1002004)
教育部留学回国人员科研启动基金项目"媒介环境与公众幸福感研究"的阶段性成果
关键词
数字鸿沟
数字不均
多模态网络使用
政治知识
社会参与
大学生
digital divide
digital inequality
multimodal Internet use
political knowledge
civic partici-patio
college student
