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

Turkle, Sherry

ISBN 10: 0465031463 / ISBN 13: 9780465031467

Published by Basic Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465031463
• ISBN 13: 9780465031467
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones

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.

About the Author

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.