Library Science Research & Work. 2026, 0(10): 18.
Effectively advancing rural information poverty alleviation is an important measure for deepening the Digital China strategy and achieving the goal of common prosperity. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory, Personal Information World Theory, and second-order observation, this paper proposes an analytical framework of the observer information field. Using villages and townships in Zhejiang and Shaanxi provinces as comparative cases, it systematically examines the mechanisms and pathways of rural information poverty alleviation under the goal of common prosperity. The paper finds that diverse actors, including government departments, village-level organizations, market entities, and local rural elites, have developed differentiated pathways for rural information poverty alleviation—such as public-led, governancecoordinated, and industry-embedded models—through network building, resource translation, and structural reshaping. Information resources exhibit uneven characteristics in terms of node distribution, value density, and individual information absorption capacity. Rural information poverty alleviation should promote a transition from basic information access to effective information empowerment, from single-actor provision to collaborative multi-actor governance, and from universal coverage to targeted, tiered support, thereby enhancing information accessibility, comprehension, and
transformation capabilities, as well as development resilience among vulnerable rural groups.
