This article surveys the literature to explore whether and how internet technologies and applications such as social network sites (SNS) support social interactions and, through them, knowledge transfers at different spatial scales and settings. By employing concepts from economic geography and combining them with ideas and empirics from urban sociology, business, and media studies, this article informs urban thinking about the underpinning mechanisms behind SNS-mediated vis-à-vis face-to-face knowledge-related interactions and how they mirror but also challenge established spatial patterns of knowledge spillovers.

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社交网站和知识转移：城市视角

本文通过查阅文献来探讨社交网站 (SNS) 等互联网技术和应用程序是否以及如何支持社交互动，以及通过它们在不同空间尺度和环境下进行知识转移。通过采用经济地理学的概念，并将它们与来自城市社会学、商业和媒体研究的思想和经验相结合，本文为城市思考提供了关于 SNS 介导的面对面知识相关互动背后的基础机制的思考以及它们如何反映并挑战既定的知识溢出空间模式。