Actual Status on Information Utilization of Youth and its Countermeasure ?-1 Actual Status of Youth Digital Consumption Gap and its Countermeasure

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Actual Status on Information Utilization of Youth
and its Countermeasure ?-1Actual Status of Youth
Digital Consumption Gap and its Countermeasure

• National Youth Policy Institute
• Hwang Jin-gu

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1. Purpose of the Research

• To develop the framework to analyze the digital
  consumption gap of the youth, centering around
  the discussion on its framework and concept.
• To analyze the actual status of digital
  consumption gap the youth is faced with, and then
  to suggest the countermeasures in strategic and
  social terms.

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2. Major Contents

• Review and discussion of the concepts related to
  the digital consumption and focus on the topic of
  Digital Consumption Gap.
• Analysis of the actual status of our nations
  overall digital life and the national situation
  of the digital consumption gap.
• Determine the actual status of youth digital
  consumption, and analyze the features and
  characteristics of digital consumption gap.

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3. Major Results of the Research

• Social Importance of Digital Consumption Gap
• - The daily use of information causes
  individual-centered consumption, reinforcement of
  consumer sovereignty, expansion of consumption
  market and space, and creation of new consumption
  goods.
• - Access to a variety of types of digital
  devices among social constituents creates the gap
  among the volumes of consumption and services
  granted through such devices.

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3-1. Major Results of the Research

• Analysis of actual status of the gap among the
  volume of digital consumption made by youth.
• - 3,200 students from 121 schools throughout the
  nation were investigated.
• - The consumption gap for wired digital devices
  There was no large gap for access, but some gap
  existed in new digital devices (PMP, etc), fees,
  and others.
• - The consumption gap for wireless digital
  devices In case of mobile phones, some gap
  existed according to the sexes, regions, and
  amount of pocket money in terms of access gap and
  consumption expense gap.
• - In case of comparison between top 10 and
  lowest 10 levels for youth digital consumption,
  there existed a demographic gap by regions,
  sexes, and amount of pocket money.

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4. Political Suggestions

• Reinforce the social recognition of the youth
  digital consumption gap and review the direction
  for its solution.
• - Require social discussions on enhancing the
  right of youth in digital consumption.
• - Require expanded policy enabling the removal
  of digital consumption gap beyond information
  gap.
• Expand the youth digital consumption base.
• - Require the expanded policy enabling the
  removal of digital consumption gap beyond
  information gap.
• - Expand the types of sound digital services
  for youth and provide public service focusing on
  wireless telecommunication devices.
• - Require social discussions on enhancing the
  right of youth in digital consumption.
• Expand the support for equal digital consumption
  of the youth.
• - Determine the actual status of alienated
  level in youth digital consumption and provide
  proper services.
• - Provide appropriate digital services to
  various types of alienated levels (disabled,
  multi-cultural youth, etc.).