Digital Capital: Importance for Social Status in Contemporary Society and Antecedents of its Accumulation
Abstract
- Choice-based conjoint experiment and questionnaire using 2,044 participants representative of German Internet population
- Empirical evidence supporting digital capital as a fundamental capital that significantly determines social status
- Status-enhancing effect similar to that of cultural capital, but less pronounced than for economic and social capital
- Factors influencing digital capital accumulation: digital upbringing, digitally savvy friends, gender, education, and age
Keywords
Digital capital; cultural capital; Bourdieu; digitalization, social status
Cite as
Rodríguez-Camacho, J. A., Linder, M., Jütte, D., & Hennig-Thurau, T. (2024). Digital Capital: Importance for Social Status in Contemporary Society and Antecedents of its Accumulation. Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), 159.Details
Publication type
Research article (journal)
Peer reviewed
Yes
Publication status
Published
Year
2024
Journal
Computers in Human Behavior
Volume
159
ISSN
2949-8821
DOI
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