Bourdieu revisited: new forms of digital capital – emergence, reproduction, inequality of distribution. Verwiebe, R. & Hagemann, S. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0):1–23, Routledge, May, 2024. _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2358170![Bourdieu revisited: new forms of digital capital – emergence, reproduction, inequality of distribution [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Based on Bourdieu’s theory of capital, we discuss in this paper the extent to which economically utilizable individual-level data can be seen as the foundation of an independent form of a new digital capital. A variety of digital practices, business models and data-analytical processes are based on these data. They are unfolding massive impact in all social fields and affect the reproduction strategies of actors from various social classes. Individual-level data are the subject of field-immanent conflicts, which we discuss using the example of a general digital field (which is mainly driven by the Big 5 tech companies) and the subfields (1) of software engineering, (2) of prosumption, and (3) of social media content creators. We consider individual-level data not only as relational positions within the digital field and its subfields, but also in relation to the structure of social classes. As a valuable and contested commodity, individual-level data are unequally distributed in favor of the upper class and a new digital elite. The middle and lower classes try to compensate for their limited power of disposal over digital capital through practices of status investments and singularistic counter-strategies.
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title = {Bourdieu revisited: new forms of digital capital – emergence, reproduction, inequality of distribution},
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abstract = {Based on Bourdieu’s theory of capital, we discuss in this paper the extent to which economically utilizable individual-level data can be seen as the foundation of an independent form of a new digital capital. A variety of digital practices, business models and data-analytical processes are based on these data. They are unfolding massive impact in all social fields and affect the reproduction strategies of actors from various social classes. Individual-level data are the subject of field-immanent conflicts, which we discuss using the example of a general digital field (which is mainly driven by the Big 5 tech companies) and the subfields (1) of software engineering, (2) of prosumption, and (3) of social media content creators. We consider individual-level data not only as relational positions within the digital field and its subfields, but also in relation to the structure of social classes. As a valuable and contested commodity, individual-level data are unequally distributed in favor of the upper class and a new digital elite. The middle and lower classes try to compensate for their limited power of disposal over digital capital through practices of status investments and singularistic counter-strategies.},
number = {0},
urldate = {2025-02-25},
journal = {Information, Communication \& Society},
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author = {Verwiebe, Roland and Hagemann, Steffen},
month = may,
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note = {\_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2358170},
keywords = {Bourdieu, Digitalization, digital capital, social change, social inequality},
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