A Research on Information Divide under Mobile Internet -- a New Type of the Information Poor

Han, Leiqian; Yan, Hui

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Title

A Research on Information Divide under Mobile Internet -- a New Type of the Information Poor

Author(s)

• Han, Leiqian
• Yan, Hui

Issue Date

2021-03-17

Keyword(s)

• Mobile Internet
• Information Divide
• Information Poor
• Information Inefficient Users

Abstract

The popularity of mobile Internet has deepened the utilization of new technologies by information users, and expanded the information environment, resulting in more types of information polarization between the rich and the poor. By interviewing 20 middle school teachers, this paper identifies a special group that is easy to be ignored: in the traditional binary division of information wealth, it seems to belong to the information rich, but in fact it is a new type of information poor - Information Inefficient Users. The characteristics of this group are: they have rich information activities in their daily life, but they lack information literacy, and their ability to use information to achieve specific goals and improve their social status is weak. The identification of inefficient users helps to define the criteria of information poor, and provides a new example for the study of information divide under the background of new information technology.

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iSchools

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text

Language

eng

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