Research On The Phenomenon Of "Gap In Knowledge" And "Digital Gap

Gap in knowledge" is common phenomenon in the evolutive courses of society. If this phenomenon doesn't arouse enough attention of the whole society and can't be solved ultimately, then "Gap in knowledge" will be more and more greater, people's self-cultivation will take on the trend of degression. It is forseeable that the enlarging "Gap in knowledge" will ultimately block the development of country and the advancement of society.With the abroad application of modern information technology whose core is thecomputer and network, the new form of "Gap in knowledge"------"Digital Gap" appears. Thefall of information and the compartmentation of knowledge which "digital gap" brings will become the difficult problem which we should face up to in the new century. And the problem solved or not will directly affect whether our country could realize the flying development in the 21st century. Therefore, we should take the corresponding measures to solve the problem and realize the flying development in new century.This paper contains four leading parts. In Section One, it reviews the history of the develoment of theory of "Gap in knowledge", then it discusses the definition of "Gap in knowledge" and explains the causes which it appears. In Section Two, it expounds on several measures which our country has taken to shorten the "Gap in knowledge". In Section Three, starting with the traditional definition and the new definition of illiteracy, it discusses the newform of "Gap in knowledge"----"Digital Gap" in this new age and analyses the "DigitalGap" and the functional illiteracy. In sucession, it expatiates on the idiograhic meaning of "Digital Gap" , then it completely analyses the phenomenon of "Digital Gap" and the causes which it appears. In Section Four, based on the academic analysis, it probes into several effective countermeasures to fill up the "Digital Gap", that is updating our minds, developing all kinds of education, increasing the educative funds.