20.500.12556/RUL-162198 Digital inequalities among internet users before and during the COVID-19 pandemic a comparison from two cross-sectional surveys in Slovenia The further digitization of society during the COVID-19 pandemic had implications for differential internet access and related social and economic outcomes. The pandemic impacted all three levels of the digital divides, as it affected how people accessed the internet, their internet skills and usage patterns. The literature, however, provides only a limited understanding about how these changes are interrelated at different levels of the digital divides. Building on the model of compound and sequential digital exclusion, this study examines the sequential pathways between the three digital divide levels before and during the pandemic, using two datasets obtained through cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2018 and 2022 from representative samples of Slovenian internet users (N$_{2018}$ = 814, N$_{2022}$ = 802). Path and multi-group analysis results confirmed strong sequential pathways between the three digital divide levels before and during the pandemic, suggesting that despite a significant increase in internet access and breadth of uses, digital inequalities among users continue to persist following the pandemic. Moreover, the interaction effects of age and education on the relationships between the three digital divide levels were found to be almost unchanged, indicating that the pandemic did not affect the role of social inequalities in shaping digital inequalities. digital inequalities internet access internet skills COVID-19 pandemic internet users path analysis covid-19 uporabniki interneta analiza poti statistika true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-09-19 15:52:28 2024-09-19 15:52:33 2024-09-23 03:37:18 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 11 str. Vol. 209, art. 123745 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 004.738.5:316(497.4) 1873-5509 10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123745 208088835 1-s2.0-S0040162524005432-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0040162524005432-main.pdf 1 6AB632E304528D2E3E0F898D7E1D3B9B e1c5626695724c57e0bf4d29141fe6073086b9ded5d0eae9d18a01c33bf15cbd 7ebd2955-768e-11ef-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=191385 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162524005432 0 79a95051-768e-11ef-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=191384 Fakulteta za družbene vede Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0