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

Author(s) : Sherry Turkle

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

Book Details

  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Published : November 2017
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 400
  • Category :
    Popular Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 95674
  • ISBN 13 : 9780465093656
  • ISBN 10 : 0465093655

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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.

About the Author(s)

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. Her notable books include The Second Self, Life on the Screen, Simulation and Its Discontents, Alone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, and The Empathy Diaries.

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