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The Participatory Web, as a space of active involvement, presence and socialisation of knowledge, has the potential to introduce significant changes to scholarly practice and to diversify it. This article draws on the findings of a narrative inquiry study that investigated the habitus of 10 digital scholars. The study uses Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and social and cultural capital as a research lens. One of the main findings to come out of the study was that research participants’ approaches to digital scholarship practices are highly influenced by their online social capital, the online networks that influence their thinking and outlook on scholarly practices, including their advocacy of openness and transparency of academic practice. This article concludes by highlighting the dispositions digital scholars display in an attempt to characterise the values and beliefs that underpin their scholarly practices. Citation Costa, C. (2014). The habitus of digital scholars. Research in Learning Technology, 21, 21274. https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0.21274 Journal Article Type Article Acceptance Date Dec 18, 2013 Publication Date Jan 31, 2014 Journal Research in Learning Technology Print ISSN 2156-7069 Publisher Taylor & Francis Open Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed Volume 21 Pages 21274 DOI https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0.21274 Keywords digital scholarship, habitus, social capital, cultural capital, the Participatory Web, Pierre Bourdieu Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/821737 Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0.21274 Related Public URLs https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/1426 Files document (2).pdf (639 Kb) PDF Download Preview Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Organisation(s) ACE Dept of Arts & Cultural Industries You might also like Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry (2018) Book Digital scholarship, higher education and the future of the 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