Industrial societies have been transformed into informational ones, where economic success is determined by the capacity to process and exploit information in a networked world, and where inclusion means being part of the net. The digital divide expresses not only material but also cultural divisions that facilitate or prevent the full use of the resources of the new media. Digital inequality also includes the existence of infrastructure and access to cognitive, social and cultural capital, which represent the potential of people (discerning and active ‘prosumers’) to use technology to change and shape their lives by actively producing, consuming and communicating .