数字再融入：代际数字鸿沟背后的老年关怀

Digital Reintegration: Elderly Care behind the Intergenerational Digital Divide

摘要: 在深度老龄化和数字转型的双重背景之下，我国老年群体正面临着数字化生存的结构困境。如何建立科学的养老模式，帮助老年人老有所养、老有所乐，已经成为亟待解决的社会命题。然而老年人作为数字时代的移民，在实现数字融入的过程中，面临着重重的适应性难题，数字排斥已从技术操作障碍升级为社会结构再生产的新型机制，导致老年群体在诸多日常生活场景中呈现重重脱嵌状态，深刻折射出技术社会转型中的代际发展断层。当下，数字时代的信息获取与技术应用能力已成为新型社会资源，而老年人在传统社会积累的经验型知识，与数字时代的编码化认知范式形成代际认知鸿沟，这种断层不仅是操作技能的代际差异，更隐含着价值观念、生活方式在社会变迁中的碰撞与冲突。为破解这一结构性困境，本研究通过对老年人的数字鸿沟进行分析，指出数字素养差异本质是技术时代文化资本的代际断层，强调通过家庭、社会、企业三重社会支持可以帮助实现包容性数字社会的建构，这些系统性支持不仅是老年群体跨越数字鸿沟的技术赋能，更是守护社会发展温度的价值选择。真正的数字文明不仅能创造效率，更能包容差异，当技术进步不仅指向未来，更能回望传统，我们才能让生命的每一个阶段都能在时代的浪潮里找到属于自己的坐标。

Abstract: Against the dual backdrop of deepening population aging and digital transformation, China’s elderly population is confronted with structural dilemmas of digital existence. Establishing a scientific elderly‑care model to enable the elderly to enjoy security and fulfillment in later life has become an urgent social issue. As “digital immigrants” in the digital era, older adults encounter numerous adaptive challenges in pursuing digital inclusion. Digital exclusion has evolved beyond barriers to technical operation into a new mechanism for the reproduction of social structures, plunging the elderly into widespread disembeddedness across daily‑life scenarios. This phenomenon reflects profound intergenerational developmental fissures amid techno‑social transition. In the present era, competence in information access and technological application has emerged as a new form of social resource. The experiential knowledge accumulated by older generations in traditional societies clashes with the coded cognitive paradigm of the digital age, giving rise to an intergenerational cognitive divide. Such fissures go beyond generational gaps in technical know‑how; they embody collisions and conflicts of values and lifestyles in the course of social change. To address this structural predicament, this paper analyzes the digital divide among the elderly and argues that disparities in digital literacy essentially represent intergenerational fractures of cultural capital in a technology‑driven era. It highlights that tripartite social support from families, communities and enterprises facilitates the construction of an inclusive digital society. These systematic supports serve not only as technical empowerment for older adults to bridge the digital divide, but also as a value‑laden choice to preserve social compassion. Genuine digital civilization generates efficiency while embracing diversity. Only when technological progress looks back to traditions as well as marching toward the future can people at every stage of life find their proper place amid the tides of the times.