The digital age requires "digital literacy" - create a healthy and progressive digital life together②

We must make digital entertainment and virtual life a supplement to real life, and then use virtual life to improve the quality of real life, and let digital technology serve real needs

The Internet, big data and The widespread application of technologies such as artificial intelligence has built a digital information space and changed people's lifestyles. From socializing, entertainment, shopping to travel, people are increasingly relying on various online platforms. While this change empowers the digital industry and releases the dividends of technological innovation, it also brings many challenges that cannot be ignored. The phenomenon of short video addiction is one of them. To cope with the challenges of the digital age, we need to improve digital literacy and adapt using the ethical wisdom of the digital age.

For individuals living in the digital age, digital literacy means how to better face the digitization of survival and lifestyle. Today, people increasingly face various electronic screens and digital interfaces alone, and everyone's attention and behavior data have become the targets of continuous acquisition by digital technology. This trend has not only created issues such as privacy protection, information cocooning, big data abuse, algorithmic discrimination and traps, but also caused psychological and behavioral disorders such as attention deficit, game and short video addiction. The key to change is that individuals can reflect on the impact of digital technology on people's cognition and behavior in the practice of digital life, learn to self-adjust and moderate, and let themselves take the initiative to obtain information and travel in the digital world, instead of being overwhelmed by fragmented information. Submerged, even addicted to digital entertainment. Let digital entertainment and virtual life supplement real life, and then use virtual life to improve the quality of real life, and let digital technology serve real needs.

Science and technology have never had such a profound impact on the future and destiny of the country, and have never had such a profound impact on people's lives and well-being as it does today. With the advent of the digital age, for technology to benefit society and the people, the whole society needs to improve digital literacy and let technology become a ladder for self-realization and the pursuit of a better life.

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)