Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Third Edition) (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Sherry Turkle
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	361
Edition:	3rd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-09365-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General Promotions
LSN:	0-465-09365-5
Barcode:	9780465093656

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