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

Turkle, Sherry

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ISBN 10: 0465093655 ISBN 13: 9780465093656

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0465093655
• ISBN 13: 9780465093656
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400