距离不死：网络时代的社会互动与地理距离
Distance Is Not Dead: Social Interaction and Geographical Distance in the Internet Era
摘要：
互联网革命使远距离通信比以往任何时候都更快、更容易、更便宜。有人认为，这降低了地理邻近在社会交往中的重要性，使我们的世界变成了一个没有边界的地球村。我们主张相反的观点：虽然技术无疑提高了通信的总体水平，但这种提高在地方社会联系方面最为明显。我们发现，电子通信量与地理距离成反比，遵循幂律。我们通过分析新婴儿名字的空间传播，直接研究了物理接近在社会交往中的重要性。与直觉相反，与上述论点一致，地理邻近的重要性随着互联网革命而急剧增加。
英文摘要：
The Internet revolution has made long-distance communication dramatically faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. This, it has been argued, has decreased the importance of geographic proximity in social interactions, transforming our world into a global village with a borderless society. We argue for the opposite: while technology has undoubtedly increased the overall level of communication, this increase has been most pronounced for local social ties. We show that the volume of electronic communications is inversely proportional to geographic distance, following a Power Law. We directly study the importance of physical proximity in social interactions by analyzing the spatial dissemination of new baby names. Counter-intuitively, and in line with the above argument, the importance of geographic proximity has dramatically increased with the internet revolution.
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