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Research Frontiers in Digital Platforms and Urban Neighborhood Formation

Examines how social media, dating apps, and location-based technologies reshape the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of urban neighborhood identities and social boundaries.

Algorithmic Gatekeeping and Neighborhood Identity Formation
Digital Platforms as Architects of Micro-Locality
Hyperlocal Data Ecologies and Community Fragmentation
Platform-Mediated Gentrification and Displacement Narratives
Digital Homophily in Spatially Heterogeneous Urban Contexts
Vernacular Placemaking Through Decentralized Social Networks
Surveillance Infrastructure and Neighborhood Boundaries
Platform Activism as Urban Territorial Practice
Algorithmic Segregation in Neighborhood Recommendation Systems
Digital Commons and the Dissolution of Geographic Community

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