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Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2017Edition: Third edition, Revised trade paperback editionDescription: xxvi, 361 pages : portrait ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465093656
  • 0465093655
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 TU.A 2017 23
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Contents:
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.
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"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in 2011"--Title page verso.

"Electronic copy is an older edition" \5 EG-CaTKH

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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