A Research On Social Factors Which Affecte The Digital Divide

Technology is making the world more and more wider and complex. As the internet develops, digital divide is growing between male and female,city and country and different classes of income and education. Habermas ever criticized that the newspaper and magazines had ruin the pubic sphere,even scratched by the elite class. Nowadays, the new media seems have put an end to the limit of the traditional media. Actually, it’s just a e-topia built by the technocrat. People of different kinds have different abilities in using internet technology. That will make the gap of wealth and knowledge wider and even rebuild a new class. When the technology is making the society much more complex,it’s also reuniting the social stratification. In the post-industrial society, knowledge will occupy an important place and the social axis will turn to the culture and a new well-educated class is rising.