主管单位:中国科学技术协会
主办单位:中国地理学会
承办单位:华东师范大学

世界地理研究 ›› 2026, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 1-19.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2026.03.20250007

• 国别与区域 •    

社交网络联系视角下美国城市网络研究

田宇轩1(), 薛德升1,2(), 刘晨1   

  1. 1.中山大学地理科学与规划学院,广州 510006
    2.南方海洋科学与工程广东省实验室,珠海 519080
  • 收稿日期:2025-01-02 修回日期:2025-05-30 出版日期:2026-03-15 发布日期:2026-03-30
  • 通讯作者: 薛德升
  • 作者简介:田宇轩(1994—),男,博士研究生,研究方向为全球城市与数字治理,E-mail:tian2deng@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金重点项目(41930646)

Research on American urban networks from the perspective of social network connections

Yuxuan TIAN1(), Desheng XUE1,2(), Chen LIU1   

  1. 1.School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
    2.Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai 519080, China
  • Received:2025-01-02 Revised:2025-05-30 Online:2026-03-15 Published:2026-03-30
  • Contact: Desheng XUE

摘要:

作为数字平台,网络社区因其表征和重塑城市空间的能力而受到学者的密切关注,但其塑造虚拟空间和表征城际联系的潜力却被忽视。在数字时代,网络社区中大量城市讨论内容将成为构建打破传统区域空间界限的城际联系及相关城市网络结构的新力量,同时,网络社区的区域隔离特征也将成为区域城市理论在数字时代的补充。研究以X平台为例,将内容挖掘、词频分析和网络民族志相结合,深入分析网络社区用户生成内容的特征及其对美国世界城市联系产生的区域性表征和重塑作用。结果表明:①在网络社区的信息传播和内容生产过程中,用户的在线行为将会不自觉地通过信息流,形成基于虚拟空间的城市发展和城际联系的评价体系;②数字时代的网络社区通过信息流的动态生成与传播,重新定义了区域城市的概念,使其突破了传统的地理界线,形成了虚实互构的新型城市网络;③美国在虚拟空间信息流的作用下,多座城市通过抓取“欲望”实现“再域化”,在度中心性排名中出现大幅变化,未来区域竞争的关键,或将取决于城市能否在“虚实互构”中完成从“空间节点”到“欲望机器”的转型。

关键词: 网络社区, 城市网络, 区域城市, X, 词频, 度中心性

Abstract:

As a digital platform, online communities have received close attention from scholars for their ability to represent and reshape urban spaces, but their potential to shape virtual spaces and represent intercity connections has been overlooked. In the digital age, a large amount of urban discussion content in online communities will become a new force for breaking down traditional regional spatial boundaries in intercity connections and related urban network structures. At the same time, the regional isolation of online communities will also become a supplement to regional urban theory in the digital age. Taking X platform as an example, this study combines content mining, word frequency analysis, and online ethnography to deeply analyze the characteristics of user generated content in online communities and its regional representation and reshaping of the connections between world cities in the United States. The results indicate that: ① In the process of information dissemination and content production in online communities, users' online behavior will unconsciously form an evaluation system for urban development and intercity connections based on virtual space through information flow; ② The network community in the digital age has redefined the concept of regional cities through the dynamic generation and dissemination of information flow, breaking through traditional geographical boundaries and forming a new type of urban network that combines reality and virtuality; ③ Under the influence of virtual spatial information flow, multiple cities in the United States have achieved "reterritorialization" by capturing "desires", resulting in significant ranking changes in degree centrality rankings.The key to future regional competition may depend on whether cities can complete the transformation from "spatial nodes" to "desire machines" in the "virtual real interaction".

Key words: online community, urban network, regional cities, X, word frequency, degree centrality