Bibliograph

Alone together, why we expect more from technology and less from each other, Sherry Turkle

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Label

Alone together, why we expect more from technology and less from each other, Sherry Turkle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alone together

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

962353309

Responsibility statement

Sherry Turkle

Sub title

why we expect more from technology and less from each other

Summary

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families

Table Of Contents

Nearest neighbors -- Alive enough -- True companions -- Enchantment -- Complicities -- Love's labor lost -- Communion -- Always on -- Growing up tethered -- No need to call -- Reduction and betrayal -- True confessions -- Anxiety -- The nostalgia of the young

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