The Czech digital divide as a form of Inequality: the non-users problem

This paper deals theoretically and empirically with the problem of inequality in the information society, known as the theory of digital divide. In its first section, the paper outlines the theoretical concept of the information society, followed by a presentation of the digital divide issue. This theory is then confronted with the idea of certain strategies of the Internet usage substitution, which would help eliminate the non-users' natural disadvantage. A qualitative research among Czech seniors, based on this idea, follows. It is trying to analyse this issue, its final product being a typology of the Internet non-users in relation to substitution strategies