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While all forms of Internet activity have an impact on the lives of Internet users,  some are particularly beneficial and allow people to improve their daily lives. One of  such Internet use is Digital Political Participation (DDP).  In this paper we seek to  understand how the influence of digital skills on the adoption of Digital Political Participation  practices may form the basis of a second level of digital divide and of a set of political  inequalities. We operationalize the digital skills construct in terms of users’ Internet  competence and level of appropriation. We hypothesize that digital skills have a significant  influence on the adoption of beneficial uses of the Internet, such as DPP. At the same time,  we examine whether digital skill levels are stratified by socio-demographic background,  thereby generating political and social inequality. By looking at the Spanish case, we first  tested the adequateness of the items chosen to measure these two dimensions. Second,  we looked into sequences of multiple influences between socio-demographic variables and  digital skills and between digital skills and DPP. The results show that socio demographic  variables have an influence on digital skills. At the same time, digital skills have a strong  influence on DPP.

Digital skills as a conditioning factor for digital political participation