New forms in analysing new commnunication technologies. The comprehensive approach of researching digital inequalities

The study overviews the latest empirical and theoretical approaches and research agenda concerning digital inequalities and the social implications of new communication technologies. The author focuses on the complex model of digital inequality, arguing that new communication technologies should be viewed as common goods, and not just as consumables. In the last chapter the author proposes to complement the research of new communication technologies with integrating cultural-cognitive concepts of lifestyle and knowledge style (cognitive style).