Użytkownicy internetu w Polsce i ich obywatelski potencjał w perspektywie cyfrowego podziału i kapitału społecznego

• Authors: Tomasz Masłyk

Title variants

EN

Internet users in Poland and their civic potential in the perspective of the digital divide and social capital

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the characteristics of Internet users in Poland in the digital divide perspective, taking into account the scale of civic engagement of Internet users and non-users. This goal was achieved in three steps. Firstly, the author presents sociodemographic characteristics of Poles who use Internet. Secondly, the nature of civic activity was specified in relation to the social capital amount of users and non-users, taking into account differences in civic initiatives in which they are engaged. Thirdly, the author presents the relationship between social capital which remains at the disposal of Internet users and scale of the use of Internet social functions through which social capital can be accumulated and mobilized. The empirical analysis was based on the data from the Diagnoza Społeczna (Social Diagnosis) research of 2013.

Keywords

EN

internet; digital divide; social capital; civil society; Social Diagnosis

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Studia BAS
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4(44)
• Pages: 141-165

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Tomasz Masłyk

• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

11542296