This article in the NY Times actually gave me a good feeling. It describes a study in which Keith Hampton and his team compared time-lapse films from the seventies and eighties with new made films from the same spaces. The results are debunking the idea that we are getting less social.
“According to Hampton, our tendency to interact with others in public has, if anything, improved since the ‘70s. The P.P.S. films showed that in 1979 about 32 percent of those visited the steps of the Met were alone; in 2010, only 24 percent were alone in the same spot.”
Sherry Turkle responds in the article that it’s because it are open, public spaces, still I think it’s still puts her ‘together alone’ in some perspective. BTW, another interesting element of the research: there are way more women on the street nowadays!
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