Kozminski Review features a short article about the research of Michał Bojanowski, describing research in the project on the society-wide discussion network in Spain. We show that this network does not seem to have the "small world" property (the famous "six degrees of separation"), echo chambers are structurally baked in, and immigrants are roughly twice as likely as native-born residents to be cut off from the main conversational fabric. These are observations not accessible to conventional attitude surveys. This summarizes the research by Michał Bojanowski, Alla Loseva, Paul Schuler, Susanne Böller, and Miranda Lubbers and described in the chapter "Simulating an Empirically Informed Population Network of Core Discussion Ties" of the newly published book "Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization" edited by Marijn Kejzer, Jan Lorenz, and Michał Bojanowski.
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- Bojanowski, M., Loseva, A., Schuler, P., Böller, S., & Lubbers, M. J. (2026). Simulating an Empirically Informed Population Network of Core Discussion Ties. In M. A. Keijzer, J. Lorenz, & M. Bojanowski (Eds.), Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization (pp. 55–82). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6_3
- Keijzer, M. A., Lorenz, J., & Bojanowski, M. (Eds.). (2026). Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6