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

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.