Cultural Capital in a Technological Context: some consideration about how its metrics in higher education

Abstract

The education institutions use to invest a lot of money to improve the access to technological services and tools without a clear orientation of where to go. In order to know more about the habits, practices and advantages that the students take out of the digital technologies, the authors carried out a research ai-med at fathoming specific aspects of the cultural capital of university students in a technological context.This study was carried out in two public universities located in Northeastern Mexico with a sample of 524 students. To gather the information the authors designed a survey by means of which socioeconomic and academic aspects that have an impact on the students’ practices and their use of the information and communication technologies could be analyzed. The results show that the students, at least in this geographical context at national level, do not experience problems to access technological resources, butthat the capitalization they make of it is not enough to be profitable for their academic preparation andtheir performances as professionals in the future.