The need for “digital literacy” in the digital age

Clarify the principles of ethics of science and technology, such as benefiting humanity, sustainable development, prioritizing public interest and sharing the dividends of science and technology, and embed them in all aspects of digital technology research and application through institutional arrangements, product design and service specifications.To make digital entertainment and virtual life a supplement to real life, and then improve the quality of real life with the help of virtual life, so that digital technology can serve the needs of reality.

The widespread application of technologies such as the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence has constructed a digital information space and changed people’s lifestyles. From socializing, entertainment, shopping to travel, people are increasingly resorting to various online platforms. While this change has empowered the digital industry and released the dividends of technological innovation, it has also brought many challenges that cannot be ignored, and the phenomenon of short video addiction is one of them. To deal with the challenges of the digital era, it is necessary to improve digital literacy and adapt to the ethical wisdom of the digital era.

In recent years, the issue of digital ethics has been attracting much attention. The so-called digital ethics refers to the requirements and guidelines that should be followed in the development, utilization and management of digital technology based on a human-centered approach, involving the behavior norms between people, individuals and society in the digital era. For example, at the social level, how to bridge the “digital divide” and make the development of digital technology more equitable and sustainable; at the enterprise level, how to avoid the misuse of technology and improper collection of user data, and aim at positive social value creation; at the individual level, how to distinguish reality from virtual, and solve the problems of Internet addiction and short video addiction, etc. At the individual level, how should we distinguish reality from the virtual, resolve the problems of Internet addiction and short video addiction, and solve the problems of attention deficit and knowledge fragmentation? It is only by correctly dealing with the challenges brought by the digital era that people can become the masters of the digital era, rather than being driven by numbers and algorithms.

Phenomena such as short video addiction have become a nuisance to many people, to some extent due to the accelerated innovation in technology and the relative lag in concepts, ethics and laws. In this regard, systemic thinking should be fully applied to seek a dynamic balance between innovation and development and social equity and justice. On the one hand, for those apparently improper corporate behaviors and serious infringements, relevant departments should strengthen supervision, such as the recent governance of platform monopoly and infringement of users’ rights and interests; on the other hand, flexible regulation through values and ethical norms should be used to prompt multiple subjects such as society, enterprises and individuals to pay more attention to digital ethics and improve digital literacy, so as to achieve collaborative governance in the digital era and move toward The key to this is to clarify the benefits of digital governance. The key to this is to clarify the ethical principles of science and technology, such as benefiting humanity, sustainable development, prioritizing public interests and sharing the dividends of science and technology, and to embed them in all aspects of digital technology research and application through institutional arrangements, product design and service specifications.

For individuals living in the digital era, digital literacy means how to better face the digitization of survival and lifestyle. Today, people are increasingly alone with various electronic screens and digital interfaces, and each individual’s attention and behavioral data have become the target of continuous access to digital technologies. This trend has not only created problems such as privacy protection, information cocoon, big data killing, algorithmic discrimination and traps, but also psychological and behavioral disorders such as attention deficit and addiction to games and short videos. The key to change is for individuals to reflect on the impact of digital technology on human cognition and behavior in their digital life practices, learn self-adjustment and moderation, and let themselves master the initiative of acquiring information and navigating the digital world, instead of being overwhelmed by fragmented information and even indulging in digital entertainment. We should let digital entertainment and virtual life become a supplement to real life, and then improve the quality of real life through virtual life, so that digital technology can serve the needs of reality.

Recently, Nails did a disappearing museum activity. In the museum, all the old objects that were once very hot but are now replaced by new things are on display. For example, desk calendars, adapters, old-fashioned hard drives, and whiteboards. Today, they rarely appear, yet they all have a better way of presentation. Using the nail desk calendar, you can reasonably arrange personal work matters, and a key synchronization to the team; nail adapter to achieve a variety of formats and types of files to cast a screen; nail plate so that the old hard disk successfully retired to the cloud with the way to transfer to; nail whiteboard across the distance, so that remote co-creation is no longer a novelty. The product evolution iteration, people’s work and learning more simple. The exhibition also has a good degree of popularity online. In the topic of #Once-hot-but-disappeared products on Weibo, some netizens mentioned Wenquxing, Jinshan Typewriter and Universal Charger. As if a national online archaeology, however, many products are already unfamiliar to the post-00s.

Behind the enduring heat of the topic is people’s surprise at the rapid changes of the times. Thirty years after the development of the Internet, human beings have produced more information than the sum of thousands of years in the past, social life has changed and efficiency has been raised extremely fast. From the street playing mouth dish to everyone installed must-have NetEase cloud, from the bookstore thick travel strategy, to the small red book everywhere attractions seeding, from the cumbersome layers of paper applications, to the APP on a little can enter the approval process. In the past, the most popular game for children in mining areas was guessing their father. The coal miners uniform is the same, the face is dark, the father stands in front of the eyes, but simply can not tell who is who. Now, relying on the nails developed digital smart mine system, miners do not have to go into the mine, you can use the nails in the phone, real-time detection of hundreds of hydraulic bracket pressure data and coal mining machine real-time location, the work is much less intense. Miners can also look like white-collar workers, neatly dressed and clean, and the game of guessing dad is no longer popular. What’s more, in the past, coal mining was a high-risk occupation, with workers working in the most dangerous places and accidents often occurring. Now, the dangerous work can be done by machines, and workers only need to monitor and control remotely. In the digital era, the former content, scenes and processes are gradually being reshaped in disappearance: a lighter, simpler and more orderly way of working and living. Under this wave, all aspects of social life and work are quietly changing. The essence of technological development is to allow human beings to complete a migration to a new world. From the disappearance, people can see the clear path of social progress. What is forgotten by this era is always replaced by new and better things. Those things that have disappeared are also the ruts of the times.

Science and technology have never had such a profound impact on the future and destiny of the country, and never had such a profound impact on the well-being of people’s lives as today. With the advent of the digital era, making science and technology benefit society and people requires the whole society to enhance digital literacy and make technology a ladder for self-actualization and the pursuit of a better life.

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