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Socioeconomic networks, segregation patterns and their dynamics

London Seminar Series
Hybrid
Past Talk
Márton Karsai
Associate Professor, Central European University
Jun 11, 2024
12:00 pm
Jun 11, 2024
12:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Moretown 101
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK

Talk recording

The uneven distribution of individual economic capacities is among the main forces, which shape modern societies and arguably bias the emerging behavioural patterns of people reflected by their social network and mobility patterns. However, the observation of socioeconomic networks is a major challenge as it requires the combination of behavioural and socioeconomic data at the individual level. In this talk first we will discuss a set of results aiming to infer the socioeconomic status of people and their effects in inducing segregation patterns in social and mobility networks. While these segregation patterns evolve gradually, yet they can change abruptly in response to external shocks. Building on mobile phone call and mobility datasets of the same population, we will demonstrate how COVID-19 lockdown interventions lead to the re-organization of socioeconomic network segregation patterns. We will find that not all socioeconomic groups could adapt equally to the emergency situation, suggesting socioeconomic status as an important determinant of people’s capacity to reflect to global emergencies.

About the speaker
Márton Karsai, PhD, HDR, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Network and Data Science at the Central European University, member of the IXXI Complex System Institute and fellow of the ISI Foundation in Torino. His research interest falls within human dynamics, computational social science, and data science, especially focusing on heterogeneous temporal dynamics, spatial and temporal networks, socioeconomic systems and social contagion phenomena. His main expertise are in analysing large human interaction datasets and in the development of data-driven models of various social phenomena.
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