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

Turkle, Sherry

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ISBN 10: 0465031463 ISBN 13: 9780465031467

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2012

Riassunto

Consider Facebook- it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. 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.

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"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 humor, Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation."―Lev Grossman, TIME

"Vivid, even lurid, in its depictions of where we are headed... [an] engrossing study."―Washington Post

"In this beautifully written, provocative and worrying book, Turkle, a professor at MIT, a clinical psychologist and, perhaps, the world's leading expert on the social and psychological effects of technology, argues that internet use has as much power to isolate and destroy relationships as it has to bring us together."

―Financial Times

"A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology."―Newsweek.com

"[Turkle] summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence...fascinating, readable."―New York Times Book Review

"Important.... Admirably personal.... [Turkle's] book will spark useful debate."―Boston Globe

"Turkle is a sensitive interviewer and an elegant writer."―Slate.com

"Savvy and insightful."

―New York Times

"What [Turkle] brings to the topic that is new is more than a decade of interviews with teens and college students in which she plumbs the psychological effect of our brave new devices on the generation that seems most comfortable with them."

―Wall Street Journal

"Amidst the deluge of propaganda, technophilia and idolatry that masquerades as objective assessment of digital culture, Turkle offers us galoshes and a sump pump.... [S]he gives a clear-eyed, reflective and wise assessment of what we gain and lose in the current configurations of digital culture."

―Christian Century

Descrizione del libro:

"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

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0465031463
• ISBN 13: 9780465031467
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384