{"id":187547,"date":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/the-degree-of-segregation-in-social-networks\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:26:01","slug":"the-degree-of-segregation-in-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/the-degree-of-segregation-in-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Degree of Segregation in Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>Social networks form the basic medium of social interaction.  The structure of these networks significantly impacts and co-evolves with the behavioral patterns of society.  Important societal outcomes \u2013 the global reach of an epidemic, the degree of cooperation in an online network, the adoption of new technologies \u2013 are dictated by social networks.<br \/>\nIn this talk, we explore the impact of networks on segregation.  In 1969, economist Thomas Schelling introduced a landmark model of racial segregation in which individuals move out of neighborhoods where their ethnicity constitutes a minority.  Simple simulations of Schelling&#8217;s model suggest that this local behavior can cause global segregation effects.  In this talk, we provide a rigorous analysis of Schelling&#8217;s model on ring networks.  Our results show that, in contrast to prior interpretations, the outcome is nearly integrated: the average size of an ethnically-homogenous region is independent of the size of the society and only polynomial in the size of a neighborhood.<br \/>\nJoint work with Christina Brandt, Gautam Kamath, and Robert D. Kleinberg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networks form the basic medium of social interaction. The structure of these networks significantly impacts and co-evolves with the behavioral patterns of society. Important societal outcomes \u2013 the global reach of an epidemic, the degree of cooperation in an online network, the adoption of new technologies \u2013 are dictated by social networks. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":196747,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13548,13559],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-187547","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-economics","msr-research-area-social-sciences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TIEmqEzqMfM","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/187547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/187547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=187547"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=187547"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=187547"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=187547"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=187547"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=187547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}