Alone Together

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

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

  • Format: Paperback | 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 142 x 211 x 26mm | 338g
  • Publication date: 30 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication City/Country: London, United States
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Edition Statement: 3rd ed.
  • ISBN10: 0465093655
  • ISBN13: 9780465093656
  • Bestsellers rank: 91,628

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.

More Books:

Alone Together
Language: en
Pages: 36
Authors: Suzanne Bloom
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-02 - Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year This simple and endearing story about friends learning to understand each other's differences is filled w
Alone Together
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Jennifer Haupt
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing

"Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers...? I doubt it."—The Washington Post "A heartening gathering of writers joining forces for community su
The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals
Language: en
Pages: 712
Authors: Dan Dietz
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keep
The Return of Collective Intelligence
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Dery Dyer
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Reveals how we can each reconnect to collective intelligence and return our world to wholeness, balance, and sanity • Explains how collective intelligence man
The Skillful Team Leader
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Elisa MacDonald
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-13 - Publisher: Corwin Press

All teams face hurdles. What distinguishes the skillful team leader from a less effective one is his or her approach in overcoming them. Whether you are a team
Journals of the House of Lords
Language: en
Pages: 610
Authors: Great Britain House of Lords
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1766 - Publisher:

The Bee in the Bottle
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Jan Goddard-Finegold
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

The Basis of Her Poetry She has shown her photographic work in solo and group shows and has written several poetry chapbooks that have been combined to make thi
Miss Brill
Language: en
Pages: 64
Authors: Katherine Mansfield
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-26 - Publisher: Penguin UK

'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away onc
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Gina Barreca
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage
Global Perspectives on Health Communication in the Age of Social Media
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Sekalala, Seif
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-09 - Publisher: IGI Global

Numerous studies suggest that people with a variety of health concerns are increasingly turning to online networks for social support. As a result, the number o