Thought provoking
by Ben Rochford · updated 6mo ago
Thought provoking
by Ben Rochford · updated 6mo ago
does our online social world actually look anything like our offline, face-to-face world?
Ben Rochford added 6mo ago
Ben Rochford added 6mo ago
But the people we interact with on Twitter are likely to be strangers – yet the patterns we found in Twitter networks were indistinguishable from those of real-world face-toface networks, except that they only had the first three layers
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Ben Rochford added 6mo ago
What these results tell us is that, even when we play games in a virtual environment with complete strangers who could be anywhere in the world, we impose a set of natural patterns on our interactions that reflect the kinds of social structures we use to manage our real-world face-to-face interactions.
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