Exploring Taiwan's Digital Stratification Change from Individual/Household Digital Opportunity Survey in Taiwan
| Autor: | Wu, Chia-Chen, 吳佳蓁 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 105 The traditional social stratification is generally divided by wealth, power and prestige. Yet, the advent of the digital age, digital stratification seems to be more effective in interpretation of the phenomenon of information society. Based on the definition of the scholars, digital stratification can be identified by the accessibility of information and communication technology, the desire to use information and communication technology, the ability to access, use and create information content, and digital cohesion. Applying the concept of digital stratification, this study expects to explore the phenomena of the digital stratification in Taiwan. The research questions are: (1) what are the distribution of digital stratification in Taiwan in 2005 and 2015? (2) is there a discrepancy in ten years in terms of digital stratification distribution between these two years? (3) is there a relationship between digital stratification and demographic records? The results of the study show that: (1) the distribution of the digital stratification in terms of high frequency is falling in the digital wealthy (42.8%) and digital poverty (22.9%) in 2005 and digital middle class (73.7%) in 2015; (2) the number of digital middle class increased dramatically in ten-year period from 2005 to 2015; (3) there is a statistically significant correlation between digital stratification and demographic records, such as age, education, income and occupation, especially in the case of digital poverty, the old age, the low level of education and the low income are the most obvious; (4) based on the analysis of the demographic variables presented by the creators (digital cohesion) on the Internet, the analysis points out that the demographic characteristics of the creators are mostly high educational level (63% above the university), the high income (the median salary More than 59%) and specific occupations. This study found that the characteristics of digital stratification are similar to those of traditional social stratification. And the phenomenon of the dramatic increasing of the middle class in 2015 seems to be related to the development of social, economic and information technology and the government policy to promote digital opportunity of which seem to deserve further observation. |
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