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Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other
- Author
- Turkle, Sherry, author.
- Title
- Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- [First paperback edition].
- Published
- New York : Basic Books, 2012. ©2011
- Description
- xvii, 360 pages ; 21 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index.
- Contents
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- Part 1. The robotic moment: in solitude, new intimacies
- Nearest neighbors
- Alive enough
- True companions
- Enchantment
- Complicities
- Love's labor lost
- Communion
- Part 2. Networked: in intimacy, new solitudes
- Always on
- Growing up tethered
- No need to call
- Reduction and betrayal
- True confessions
- Anxiety
- The nostalgia of the young
- Conclusion: Necessary conversations
- Epilogue: The letter.
- Summary
- In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.
- Kinsey subjects
- Interpersonal relations. Communication.
- ISBN
- 9780465031467 0465031463