The internet in everyday life: a typology of internet users

Meyen et al discusses the factors that determine Internet usage. They argue that the increasing diffusion of the Internet has by no means closed the digital divide within society: the differences have merely shifted from disparity in Internet access to disparity in the quality of its usage. The concept of digital inequalities assumes that different patterns of Internet use influence the life chances of a user: the more capital he/she can accumulate using the Internet, the more he/she benefits from web use.