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Check-ins in “Blau Space”: Applying Blau’s Macrosociological Theory to Foursquare Check-ins from New York City

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Joseph, Kenneth Hong, Jason I. Carley, Kathleen M.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Peter Blau was one of the first to define a latent social space and utilize it to provide concrete hypotheses. Blau defines social structure via social “parameters” (constraints). Actors that are closer together (more homogenous) in this social parameter space are more likely to interact. One of Blau’s most important hypotheses resulting from this work was that the consolidation of parameters could lead to isolated social groups. For example, the consolidation of race and income might lead to segregation. In the present work, we use Foursquare data from New York City to explore evidence of homogeneity along certain social parameters and consolidation that breeds social isolation in communities of locations checked in to by similar users. More specifically, we first test the extent to which communities detected via Latent Dirichlet Allocation are homogenous across a set of four social constraints—racial homophily, income homophily, personal interest homophily and physical space. Using a bootstrapping approach, we find that 14 (of 20) communities are statistically, and all but one qualitatively, homogenous along one of these social constraints, showing the relevance of Blau’s latent space model in venue communities determined via user check-in behavior. We then consider the extent to which communities with consolidated parameters, those homogenous on more than one parameter, represent socially isolated populations. We find communities homogenous on multiple parameters, including a homosexual community and a “hipster” community, that show support for Blau’s hypothesis that consolidation breeds social isolation. We consider these results in the context of mediated communication, in particular in the context of self-representation on social media.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	22
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	21576904
e-ISSN	21576912
DOI	10.1145/2566617
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	3
Journal	ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-09-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Foursquare Community structure Latent social space Urban analytics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Theoretical Computer Science

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