Universal patterns of long-distance commuting and social assortativity in cities.

ABSTRACT: Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, partners, friends, and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse neighborhoods, but whether this has an imprint on social inclusion or instead, connections remain assortative is less explored. In this paper, we aim to better understand income sorting in social networks inside cities and investigate how commuting distance conditions the online social ties of Twitter users in the 50 largest metropolitan areas of the United States. An above-median commuting distance in cities is linked to more diverse individual networks, moreover, we find that longer commutes are associated with a nearly uniform, moderate reduction of overall social tie assortativity across all cities. This suggest

SUBMITTER: Bokanyi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531448 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature