청소년의 정보불평등 환경구조에 관한 탐색적 연구

A study on the environmental structure and its effect on youth's information inequality

A qualitive approach was attempted to find out that youth's information inequality would happen under what structure and what environment differently from adults using a group discussion method according to the subject and cultural technological magazine. The reason of youth's information inequality can be largely divided into an economical factor and a social factor, and in case of the former, the children of low classes have been prevented from accessing to PC from the first, and the children of middle or upper classes have been limited to use PC telecommunication owing to the heavy maintenance cost. In addition, in case of the latter, they have been suffering “pressure” to use PC in accordance with informationalized society and “control” not to use PC by their parents for fear that PC may prevent their children from passing exams or studying, which is occurring in all kinds of sections such as school, family, and society owing to school life and studying. With this conception in mind, the children who don't have PCs have suffered serious divested feelings and stresses compared with the children who have PCs, and the children who have PCs but can't use PC telecommunication have showed a critical view and envied the children who use PC telecommunication. Also some children who use PC telecommunication have expressed their concrete dissatisfactions about PC telecommunication services and some have taken a positive viewpoint about informationalization. Thus firstly impartial information environment must be presented to various classes of children according to this unequally informative environmental structure for children, secondly a new educational paradigm, educational informationalization, must be received and realized, and finally the cognition of children's rights to access to informationalization is required.