New Cultural Capital and the Generation of the"Technological Divide"in the Age of Intelligence
Changes in the technological environment continuously give rise to new forms of capital that can be circulated and exchanged,driving differentiation dynamics within society.In recent years,artificial intelligence(AI)has experienced a qualitative leap in deep learning and data computing capabilities.Language models,video models,and intelligent education systems have proliferated.As the"fourth industrial revolution"-following steam technology,electrical technology,and information technology-AI has become deeply embedded in human social life,like any other transformative technology.It has not only propelled human society toward an intelligent meta-process but also introduced new trends in social differentiation and inequality,giving rise to a new"technological divide".In this context,this paper uses Bourdieu's capital theory as the analytical framework and uses multiple correspondence analysis to model the questionnaire information spatially.Then,it discusses the impact of new cultural capital on the distribution of traditional economic,cultural and social capital after it flows into the social space,and the potential relationships between them,aiming to reflect the new divide pattern under the impact of new cultural capital.To supplement the lack of information at the micro level of quantitative analysis and further analyze how the new"technological divide"is generated and intensified in daily life in the age of intelligence,this paper conducts interviews with actors who are separated on each side of the"technological divide"based on the spatial differentiation results obtained from multiple correspondence analysis,to explore the generative logic of the new"technological divide"in the age of intelligence.The study finds that the new"technological divide"is generated in the complex combination of new capital and traditional capital.In terms of the generation path of the new"technological divide",the"old age countdown"under the overlap of the old and new divides has caused the elderly to develop a coping posture of self-exile outside the age of intelligence,which,together with the"technological replacement"and"good-faith isolation"behaviors of the children,eliminates the space for intelligent feedback behavior.Additionally,under the limitation of limited time and energy resources,traditional social elites usually invest much time,energy,or money to maintain their existing capital advantages.This effort to preserve the superiority of conventional capital will instead constrain the development of its new cultural capital,providing an opportunity for the rise of a new elite group in the age of intelligence.In addition,the new"technological divide"further exacerbates the problem of gender inequality.Due to the misjudgment of the usefulness of"software cultural infrastructure",and the combined influence of gender stereotypes and the characteristics of intelligent cultural literacy,the female often face structural exclusion in the process of converting intelligent cultural capital with traditional capital,which makes it more difficult for them to maintain or optimize social existence through continuous transformation between capitals.This paper introduces the media/technology perspective into Bourdieu's capital flow framework,revealing the trend of social differentiation and its generation logic under the new"technological divide"in the age of intelligence,which may help promote the interdisciplinary development of divide research in the age of intelligence.
new cultural capitalintelligent communicationtechnological divide
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