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UGAS, Luis  e  CENDROS, Jesús. Brecha digital en la difusión de las tecnología de Internet para el acceso a la Sociedad Red. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.2, pp.296-310. ISSN 1315-9518.

The purpose of the following article is to analyze the digital divide in the diffusion of Internet Technologies at the level of access to the network society in Maracaibo Municipality. Through a bibliographic review, the concepts and parameters related to the concepts of network society, digital divide and technological diffusion were established. A totally randomized and stratified survey of 277 subjects was made in the city of Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela. The population consisted of 1,372,724 inhabitants who live in that city. The instrument was a structured and semi-closed questionnaire. The conclusions were that in relation to broadcasting levels, 34.3% of the sample had Internet access and 65.7% did not. There is a Digital Divide in the diffusion of the technology, where the sociological characteristics of Internet users is that the majority are: children and young people, female, with higher level education, mainly students who belonged to a C level social class status. Access to Internet was concentrated in urban parishes on the east side of Maracaibo. The following proposals are recommended: promote universal access to Internet, encourage the development of national content on the Internet, foment the development of informational abilities and establish system indicators for ICTs in Venezuelan.

Palavras-chave : Digital divide; diffusion of TICs; network society.