Time as a limited resource: Communication strategy in mobile phone networks
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Creating and maintaining personal relationships requires sufficient time investment, but finite time budgets place a limit on the number of personal relationships that an individual can maintain through one-on-one interactions.
“Creating and maintaining personal relationships requires sufficient time investment, but finite time budgets place a limit on the number of personal relationships that an individual can maintain through one-on-one interactions [15–17].”
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- Authors
- Miritello, G., Moro, E., Lara, R., Martínez-López, R., Belchamber, J., Roberts, S. G. B., & Dunbar, R. I. M.
- Affiliations
- Telefonica Research and Development (ES)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- University of Chester (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Miritello, Giovanna
- Venue
- Social Networks
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-01
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 89-95
- ISSN
- 0378-8733 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2014130402
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 15.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Social Networks (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Keywords
- mobile phone networks, time allocation, tie strength, network size, time constraints, personal networks, mobile communication, social network analysis
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