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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

By Sherry Turkle

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Philosophy

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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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 new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Even the presence of sociable robots in our lives that pretend to demonstrate empathy makes us feel more isolated, as Turkle explains in a new introduction updating the book to the present day. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on interviews with hundreds of children and adults, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
3
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2017-11-07
Publication Date:
2017-11-07
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0465093655
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
13
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
1050 g
Height:
21.2 cm
Width:
13.9 cm
Thickness:
2.8 cm
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