Border Effect of Complex Network: An analysis on the cooperation network of movie stars across different regions

TL;DR

This paper investigates how geographic boundaries influence the structure of the movie industry cooperation network, revealing the impact of national and regional borders on social and professional interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a network analysis approach to quantify the effect of geographic boundaries on cooperation among movie industry professionals across regions.

Findings

Geographic boundaries significantly affect cooperation patterns.

Regional differences influence network connectivity.

Boundaries shape the structure of industry collaboration networks.

Abstract

People always carry out social activities within certain geographic space. The geographic boundary likes national boundaries and provincial boundaries functions as dividing policies, distributing administrative resources, defining the scope of application of laws and regulations or even the boundary of cultural region, producing fundamental influence on lifestyle. Network analysis is a powerful tool to abstract complex system. In this article, we used network method to understand changes of cooperation network in movie industry and effect of geographical boundary.