信息化时代"知沟"的主要表现及其政治意味

"知沟"是不同的社会成员之间在某一问题、事物的知识上存在的差别.在以传播业高度发达为特征的信息化时代,主要有三种类型的"知沟"将呈扩大之势一是高学历者和富裕阶层与普通大众之间的"知沟";二是城乡之间的"知沟";三是富国与穷国之间的"知沟".当代"知沟"现象的存在是社会群体在其社会经济地位上的不平等造成的,但二者之间"知沟"的扩大反过来又加剧其经济地位的不平等."知沟"同时能直接影响一个国家的政治生活在"知沟"现象加剧的社会里,民主将遭遇挫折,新极权将会产生;国家问的"知沟"加剧了国际矛盾,表现为意识形态的经常性对抗,并进而影响到国内的政治生活.

The Main Expression of Knowledge Gap and its Political Characteristic

Knowledge Gap is the difference between different social members'knowledge of a certain issue or matter.In informationized times with highly advanced promulgation as its character,there are mainly three important kinds of knowledge gap putting on widening tendency:firstly,the one between those with higher learning, the rich and the ordinary people;secondly,the one between the urban and the rural;thirdly,the one between rich countries and poor ones.The existence of modern knowledge gap is caused by the economic inequality of social groups,and in turn the expansion of their knowledge gap will deepen their economic inequality.Therefore,knowledge gap can simultaneously exert influence upon the political life in a country.In the society with widening knowledge gap,democracy will meet frustration,neototalitarianism will appear;the knowledge gap between nations deteriorates international contradictions,which is in the form of regular ideological confrontation,and further influences the domestic political life.