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• 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
Rodríguez‐Camacho et al. (Mon,) studied this question.