Abstract: The wave of digitization is sweeping the world, and China’s border areas are inevitably involved. A digital media practice research of Dizhengdang Village, a village on the Sino-Burmese border, found that digital media practice in the border villages has obvious intergenerational differences. Digital media improve the villagers’ right to know, opened up development paths for their villages, changed the traditional concept of marriage, and impacted the traditional culture and social structure. On the other hand, shortage of professionals, lack of media literacy, and lingual barriers mean that digital integration of border villages remain superficial and marginal, making it difficult for the villagers to benefit from the development of the digital era. High-quality integration of digital media in China’s border villages still has a long way to go.

Key words: Sino-Burmese border village, Being Digital, medium practice, the Dulong people