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The digital gap does not exist

Approximately 90% of the Flemish between 18 and 45 years old dispose of a computer and access to the internet. Whereas the digital gap in terms of ICT possession was only recently filled, a new form of digital inequality suddenly emerges. Research shows that not everybody uses ICT-technology in the same way. As if someone expected the opposite, it turns out that the highly-qualified use the internet in a different way than the low-skilled. Is the class struggle going digital or is the observed usage gap primarily an expression of an obsessive striving towards absolute consumption equality?