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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, �2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 360 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780465022342
  • 0465022340
  • 9781283094146
  • 1283094142
  • 0465031463
  • 9780465031467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alone together.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/33 22
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .T86 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part 1. The robotic moment: in solitude, new intimacies -- Nearest neighbors -- Alive enough -- True companions -- Enchantment -- Complicities -- Love's labor lost -- Communion -- Part 2. Networked: in intimacy, new solitudes -- Always on -- Growing up tethered -- No need to call -- Reduction and betrayal -- True confessions -- Anxiety -- The nostalgia of the young -- Conclusion: Necessary conversations -- Epilogue: The letter.
Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index.

Part 1. The robotic moment: in solitude, new intimacies -- Nearest neighbors -- Alive enough -- True companions -- Enchantment -- Complicities -- Love's labor lost -- Communion -- Part 2. Networked: in intimacy, new solitudes -- Always on -- Growing up tethered -- No need to call -- Reduction and betrayal -- True confessions -- Anxiety -- The nostalgia of the young -- Conclusion: Necessary conversations -- Epilogue: The letter.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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