... watching television, gardening, reading newspapers, magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going to the pub, doing nothing, writing letters, sleeping, playing computer games, and typing ... M. (2003). Fathoming the digital divide. Studies in Internet Communication: Theory and Practice, 19. (forthcoming) 1THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION Caroline Haythornthwaite ... the Internet an “elixir” (an opportunity), or an “affliction” (an “engine of global inequality”), or is it merely suffering from “teething troubles” on its way to integration in everyday life...