RT Journal Article
T1 The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid
A1 Calderón Gómez, Daniel
AB Based on Bourdieu’s theory, this article focuses on the third-level digital divide in relation to offline outcomes of Internet use. Based on 30 in-depth qualitative interviews with young people in Madrid, we analyzed the mechanisms used to convert three main forms of capital—economic, cultural, and social—into digital capital (DC) and the subsequent reconversion of DC back into the three main forms of capital. We conclude that economic capital is the most basic form of digital inequality, imposing material barriers to access. Cultural capital is transformed into DC through people’s techno-socialization, while social capital is converted into DC by means of social practices and social support. DC can be retransformed into each of the three main forms of capital: to economic capital by means of professional networking and access to goods; to cultural capital through access to knowledge; and into social capital by the differential management of social ties.
PB SAGE Publications
SN 1461-4448
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91604
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91604
LA eng
NO Calderón, D. (2021). The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid. New Media & Society, 23 (9): 2534–2553. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820933252
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025