Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Informationen zum Autor Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Klappentext The result of a 15 year exploration of how our lives are affected by digital media and technology, this is based on hundreds of interviews with children and adults. It shows how we fall prey to the illusion of companionship online, gaining thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and how this actually leads to a new solitude. "Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humour, Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation."-Lev Grossman, TIME Zusammenfassung "Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humour! Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation."-Lev Grossman! TIME

Product details

• Authors: Sherry Turkle
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 99
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780465031467
• ISBN: 978-0-465-03146-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Basic Books
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Kommunikation, Facebook, Twitter, Weblog (Blog), Einsamkeit