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1Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Plos One
|May 29, 2019
Summary
Online friendships between students decrease with distance, mirroring real-world patterns. Schools with similar educational outcomes form more digital connections, revealing online segregation.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Network Science
- Digital Sociology
Background:
- The internet enables students to form social ties beyond geographical limits.
- The structure of online interschool relationships remains largely unexamined.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the structure of online friendships between students from different schools.
- To analyze the influence of distance and school characteristics on digital social ties.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of friendship network data from 36,951 students across 590 schools in a European city.
- Utilizing social networking site data to map interschool connections.
- Statistical analysis of friendship probability against school distance and educational performance.
Main Results:
- Friendship probability between students decreases with geographical distance, following a power law.
- Students from schools with similar educational outcomes exhibit higher connectivity.
- Digital space shows segregation by educational performance, unlike geographical distribution.
Conclusions:
- The internet is not a borderless space for student social connections.
- Online platforms can reinforce or create new forms of educational inequality.
- Understanding digital neighborhood structures is crucial in the digital age.
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