Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet?

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Trends in income and price elasticities of transport demand (1850–2010) (2012, background): “…distance and the mode of communication used – for interactions with people living less than 5 km, people still often engage in face-to-face communication; for regional interactions, the phone is used mostly; and for greater distances, the internet is the predominant choice (Mok et al., 2010).”
Geography of Twitter networks (2012, background): “A newer study of East Yorkers conducted in 2005 discovered again that the number of social ties drops sharply as the distance increases between 1 and 20 miles (Mok et al., 2010).”
Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks (2011, background): “Moreover, mobility may further be shaped by our social relationships [11, 26] as we may be more likely to”
Urban Sensing Using Mobile Phone Network Data: A Survey of Research (2014, background): “In other cases, conﬂicting hypotheses have been made, including those of a complementary (Mok et al., 2010), neutral (Choo et al., 2010) or reinforcing eﬀect (Sasakia and Nishiib, 2010).”