
Digital society integrates ICTs in the productive structure, in the educational system and more broadly in our daily life. It has brought about changes in scale and pace like never before. However, digital technologies are penalizing socially disadvantaged people, giving rise to the digital underclass. This chapter pays particular attention to (traditional) digital inequalities, namely inequalities in the access, uses and benefits individuals can gain from ICTs, by analysing the intertwined relationship between the main axes of inequality—gender, age, race, education and income—and digital divide. The chapter attempts to answer the following question: do the traditional forms of social inequalities simply replicate themselves in the digital sphere or do digital inequalities operate under their own dynamics?
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