Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology

  • Gergő Tóth,
  • Johannes Wachs,
  • Riccardo Di Clemente,
  • Ákos Jakobi,
  • Bence Ságvári,
  • János Kertész,
  • Balázs Lengyel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21465-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Not much is known about the joint relationships between social network structure, urban geography, and inequality. Here, the authors analyze an online social network and find that the fragmentation of social networks is significantly higher in towns in which residential neighborhoods are divided by physical barriers such as rivers and railroads.