Additional Risk of Digital Divide among Elderly, Exclusion from Political Participation
Additional Risk of Digital Divide among Elderly, Exclusion from Political Participation
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DOI：
10.47042/acsw.2019.11.65.169
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2019-01-01
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Hyejin, Choi
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Hyeji, Choi，;Hyejin, Choi
这项研究是从这样一个批判性概念出发的：信息化可以通过确保人们参与政治决策过程来实现更好的政府。本研究以225名老年人和533名青年人为研究对象，通过分析数字鸿沟与老年人政治参与的关系，考察信息化是促进老年人政治参与的积极工具还是扩大政治权力不平等的消极工具。此外，还分析了数字鸿沟与政治参与之间的关系以及各代人的政治参与差异，反映了政治意识和政治行动的代际差异。结果表明，信息化水平与政治参与水平呈正相关。这意味着，由于社会经济地位低下的副产品，老年人的数字能力有限，因此他们很少有机会维护自己的利益，因此将他们排除在政治参与之外，这将加强目前不平等的社会结构。此外，还支持世代与数字接入对政治参与的互动效应
This study was developed from the critical notion that informatization may implement the better government by securing participation of people on political decision making process. With employing an empirical data from 225 older and 533 younger, this study examined whether informatization was a positive instrument enhancing political participation of elderly or a negative huddle extending inequality of political power through analyzing an association between digital divide and political participation. In addition, reflecting an idea that political awareness and action varies across generations, differences in association between digital divide and political participation, as well as in political participation by generations were analyzed. The results showed that the level of informatization was positively associated with the level of political participation. This implied that present social structure of inequality would be reinforced by excluding from political participation of elderly who had a low chance to advocate his/her interest due to limited digital capability that was a by product of low socio economic status. Also, an interaction effect of generation with digital access on political participation was supported