“ Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. ”
Bernardo Huberman, Daniel Romero i Fang Wu w ostatniej edycji First Monday, odpowiadaja wlasciwie wprost na pytanie, dlaczego jedyne sensowne badania ambient intimacy to te jakosciowe.
