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Alone Together

Alone Together

Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 25/04/2011

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Consider Facebook-it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. 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.
ISBN:
9781452601915
9781452601915
Category:
Information technology: general issues
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
25-04-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
137x163x27mm
Weight:
0.08kg

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