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[randomwalker]

It's a purely qualitative study.

You're right, it's a bit outside the normal ambit of computer science. I'm interested in multidisciplinary questions; we do also have non computer scientists among the authors, for example Prof. Nissenbaum http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/

Overall, as you suggest, our analysis is a mixture of CS, economics and social science.