Lost in the city: revisiting Milgram's experiment in the age of social networks.

As more and more users access social network services from smart devices with GPS receivers, the available amount of geo-tagged information makes repeating classical experiments possible on global scales and with unprecedented precision. Inspired by the original experiments of Milgram, we simulated...

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Main Authors: János Szüle, Dániel Kondor, László Dobos, István Csabai, Gábor Vattay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111973