TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weber, Maximilian
A1  - Becker, Birgit
T1  - Browsing the web for school: social inequality in adolescents’ school-related use of the internet
T2  - Sage open
N2  - This article examines whether social inequality exists in European adolescents’ school-related Internet use regarding consuming (browsing) and productive (uploading/sharing) activities. These school-related activities are contrasted with adolescents’ Internet activities for entertainment purposes. Data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 is used for the empirical analyses. Results of partial proportional odds models show that students with higher educated parents and more books at home tend to use the Internet more often for school-related tasks than their less privileged counterparts. This pattern is similar for school-related browsing and sharing Internet activities. In contrast to these findings on school-related Internet activities, a negative association between parental education and books at home is found with adolescents’ frequency of using the Internet for entertainment purposes. The implications of digital inequalities for educational inequalities are discussed.
KW  - digital inequality
KW  - Internet use
KW  - cultural capital
KW  - digital divide
KW  - sociology
KW  - social sciences
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51071
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-510711
SN  - 2158-2440
N1  - Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
VL  - 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif.
ER  -