I’m here! Conspicuous geomedia practices and the reproduction of social positions on social media

Figures & data

Figure 1. The Swedish social space anno 2019. The cloud of individuals. MCA, axis 1 (volume of capital) and 2 (capital composition). Missing values have been omitted (n = 3693).

Figure 2. The Swedish social space anno 2019. The cloud of modalities. MCA, axis 1 and 2. Missing values have been omitted (n = 3693).

Figure 3. Place-exposing practices projected into the Swedish social space. The cloud of modalities. MCA, axis 1 and 2. Missing values (including not owning a smartphone) have been omitted (n = 3483).

Table A1. Active variables used to create the Swedish social space.

Headings	Variables	Categories	N	%
Cultural capital	Level of education	Low education	215	5.5
		Mid-low education	1096	28.1
		Mid-high education	948	24.3
		High education	1643	42.1
	Parents’ education	Both parents have degrees	661	16.9
		Father has degree	384	9.8
		Mother has degree	427	10.9
		No parent with degree	2431	62.1
	Grown up in culturally rich home	Strongly agree	810	20.8
		Somewhat agree	1408	36.1
		Do not agree	1249	32
		Do not agree at all	435	11.1
	Number of books at home	0–10 books	383	9.8
		11–99 books	1369	35.1
		100–199 books	821	21
		200–399 books	658	16.9
		>400 books	671	17.2
Economic capital	Monthly income (SEK)	Don’t know/no answer	384	8.8
		0–19.999 SEK	821	21
		20.000–34.999	1475	37.8
		35.000–49.999 SEK	931	23.8
		50.000->100.000 SEK	332	8.5
	Summer residence	Yes	729	18.7
		No	3173	81.3
	Assets	Don’t know/no answer	621	15.9
		0–49.999 SEK	707	18.1
		50.000–249.999 SEK	1123	28.8
		250.000–499.999 SEK	594	15.2
		500.000–999.999 SEK	436	11.2
		>1 million SEK	421	10.8
Social capital	Board membership	Yes	1074	27.5
		No	2828	72.5

Table A2. Benzécri-adjusted eigenvalues of top 10 dimension among the active variables.

Dimension	Adjusted eigenvalue %	Cumulative %
1	49.1	49.1
2	23.7	72.8
3	16.1	88.9
4	4.3	93.2
5	3.8	97
6	1	98
7	0.9	98.9
8	0.4	99.3
9	0.3	99.6
10	0.2	99.8

Table A3. Contributions and squared cosines of active categories, dimensions 1 and 2.

	Dimension 1		Dimension 2
Category	Cos	Contrib	Cos	Contrib
Mid-low education	0.33393	12.285	0.01628	0.6815
Mid-high education	0.00169	0.0065	0.00978	0.4289
High education	0.31791	9.061	0.00098	0.0284
0–10 books	0.15012	7.092	0.00722	0.3881
11–99 books	0.08961	3.060	0.01799	0.6988
100–199 books	0.00341	0.139	0.00108	0.0501
200–399 books	0.02011	1.076	0.00352	0.1718
>400 books	0.19370	8.254	0.00622	0.3013
No parent with uni. degree (incl. “don’t know)	0.14489	2.898	0.18873	4.2944
Mother has uni. degree	0.00054	0.025	0.08307	4.3571
Father has uni. degree	0.01978	0.920	0.00203	0.1072
Both parents have uni. degree	0.12961	5.591	0.12838	6.2997
Grown up with culture: + +	0.22076	9.000	0.14225	6.5974
Grown up with culture: +	0.00516	0.170	0.00198	0.0742
Grown up with culture: −	0.10063	3.581	0.06179	2.5013
Grown up with culture: −	0.06798	3.156	0.03913	2.0664
Income: Don’t know/no answer	0.00290	0.138	0.00023	0.0124
0–19,999 SEK	0.01956	0.835	0.15697	7.6241
20,000–34,999 SEK	0.07789	2.497	0.00614	0.2238
35,000–49,999 SEK	0.02862	1.096	0.03703	1.6137
50,000->100,000 SEK	0.11677	5.492	0.13945	7.4606
Assets: Don’t know/no answer	0.00050	0.022	0.00014	0.0068
Assets: 0–49,999 SEK	0.06239	2.662	0.09314	4.5211
Assets: 50,000->249,999 SEK	0.00495	0.181	0.07042	2.9348
Assets: 250,000–499,999 SEK	0.00395	0.174	0.00546	0.2739
Assets: 500,000–999,999 SEK	0.00290	0.134	0.04342	2.2810
Assets: >1 mil. SEK	0.06427	2.960	0.22516	11.7962
Country house: Yes	0.08939	3.743	0.19441	9.2610
Country house: No	0.08939	0.898	0.19441	2.2213
Board member: Yes	0.06943	2.589	0.09034	3.8317
Board member: No	0.06943	1.016	0.09034	1.5039
Education: Other	0.00707	0.345	0.00073	0.0420
Education: Economics, admin., hotel	0.02794	1.176	0.043236	2.0280
Education: humanities, arts.	0.01617	0.776	0.09269	5.0608
Education: medicine, health care	0.01457	0.662	0.00863	0.4458
Education: transportation, farming, logistics	0.06998	2.919	0.11928	5.6587
Education: Social sciences, media, marketing	0.00247	0.116	0.01792	0.9609
Education: Science	0.02868	1.349	0.00073	0.0391
Education: Social care	0.00063	0.030	0.01593	0.8457
Education: Pedagogy	0.03899	1.820	0.00576	0.3060

Table A4. V-test for modalities in supplementary variables on the two main dimensions.

Dimension 1 (Volume of capital)		Dimension 2 (Capital composition)
Modality	V-test	Modality	V-test
”Checked in” theatre: Yes	4.519	”Checked in” theatre: Yes	0.936
”Checked in” theatre: No	6.159	”Checked in” theatre: No	0.333
Not visited theatre	−9.284	Not visited theatre	−0.931
”Checked in” museum: Yes	6.892	”Checked in” museum: Yes	−1.545
”Checked in” museum: No	5.621	”Checked in” museum: No	−1.257
Not visited museum	−11.232	Not visited museum	2.515
”Checked in” hotel: Yes	1.084	”Checked in” hotel: Yes	1.911
”Checked in” hotel: No	4.120	”Checked in” hotel: No	−0.158
Not visited hotel	−7.346	Not visited hotel	−2.218
”Checked in” shopping mall: Yes	−3.334	”Checked in” shopping mall: Yes	2.731
”Checked in” shopping mall: No/not visited	3.334	”Checked in” shopping mall: No/not visited	−2.731
”Checked in” market hall: Visited	8.024	”Checked in” market hall: Visited	2.261
”Checked in” market hall: Not visited	−8.024	”Checked in” market hall: Not visited	−2.731
”Checked in” nature reserve: Yes	6.069	”Checked in” nature reserve: Yes	−1.996
”Checked in” nature reserve: No	2.085	”Checked in” nature reserve: No	1.474
Not visited nature reserve	−7.794	Not visited nature reserve	0.069
”Checked in” conference: Yes	4.759	”Checked in” conference: Yes	2.571
”Checked in” conference: No	3.608	”Checked in” conference: No	2.523
Not visited conference	−6.600	Not visited conference	−4.171
”Checked in” art exhibition: Yes	−7.680	”Checked in” art exhibition: Yes	−1.143
”Checked in” art exhibition: No	4.941	”Checked in” art exhibition: No	0.159
Not visited art exhibition	−9.242	Not visited art exhibition	0.450
”Checked in” camping: Yes	−2.570	”Checked in” camping: Yes	1.085
”Checked in” camping: No	0.069	”Checked in” camping: No	1.861
Not visited camping	1.050	Not visited camping	−2.336