Digital capital: Importance for social status in contemporary society and antecedents of its accumulation

• 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