Abstract
"The social stratification aspects of internet use are being widely discussed in literature for years, especially within the digital divide research tradition. With the expansion of internet in the society, inequalities lies no more just in the access to it, but more in the patterns of internet use.
This shift opens up highly important field for social researchers. However, in the recent debate on this topic, the patterns of internet use are often addressed separately, but rarely in the context of other lifestyle activities, i.e. as a part of cultural capital in the bourdieusian sense.
My project focuses on the issue of inequalities in the internet usage from this bourdieusian point of view, and tries to synthetize the research tradition of digital divide with the concept of cultural capital, both on the theoretical and empirical grounds. Using a complex statistical analysis of data on Czech internet users, I show that the same logic can be found in the structure of online activities and other (offline) lifestyle activities, i.e. the cultural capital of a user.
On this basis, I argue that the way internet is used is an important part of a cultural capital of an individual in today's society. "