Head-to-Head: A Meeting of Inspired Minds

Network Science, Segregation, and the Emergence of Political Extremes

Today we are bound to distinguish between two different kinds of segregation: the physical and the digital. But how does this distinction actually impact our digital culture? How do cultural formations and technological artifacts fit together? This conversation, between Holtzbrinck Fellow Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and digital media scholar Nishant Shah, will examine the resonances between physical and virtual segregation by analyzing the fundamental principles that drive networks.