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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, [(c)2012.Edition: [First paperback edition]Description: xvii, 360 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465031467
  • 0465031463
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM851.A466 2012
  • HM851.T939.A466 2012
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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," MichiganT 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor Non-fiction HM851.T86 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001575162

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," MichiganT 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.

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