摘要
当地理学研究者提出信息通信技术(ICTs)的发展改变了区域空间结构的构成与形态,并多以城市作为空间结构转变的研究对象时,人们对信息时代的农村空间问题的关注则明显减少。城市与农村作为区域构成两个不可割裂的部分,信息技术影响作用的渗透是同时出现的,作者认为农村地区在信息时代的空间问题同样值得探讨。文章首先总结了地理学研究者有关农村信息技术应用方面的研究成果,指出当前地理学在此领域的主要研究内容有:1)农村信息化发展的理论探讨;2)农村信息化发展的经济意义研究;3)农村信息化发展社会意义研究。然后对研究进展作了进一步评析,并提出今后深入研究的主要方向。
New information and communication technologies（ICTs） have profoundly changed our social and economic life,which initiates a lot of debates among geographers on the implications of new ICTs application.It is now widely recognized that the development of new ICTs bears much on regional configuration.However,existing researches have concentrated on urban rather than rural areas.Compared to rapid changes in the rural areas caused by the application of new ICTs,geographers＇ studies on the subject have lagged far behind.Based on a review of existing literature on rural informationalization,this paper calls for more attention from geographers to rural spatial transformation under new ICTs.It first reviews existing research in the field from three aspects,i.e.theoretical debates on rural informationalization,economic implications and social implications of new ICTs application for the rural areas,and then proposes several topics to study in the future,such as the features of rural informationalization,enterprise-based case studies of the spatial implications of new ICTs application,etc.
出处
《地理科学进展》
CSCD
北大核心
2009年第5期759-766,共8页
Progress in Geography
基金
国家自然科学基金项目(40571047)
关键词
农村
信息技术
研究进展
评析
rural areas
new information and communication technologies
research progress
