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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Category: Culture
A wake-up call from a cyber-expert -- our narcissistic use of technology is fuelling disturbing levels of isolation, leaving us incapable of distinguishing the difference between true human connection and digital communication
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Category: Social Issue
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, as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, this rel ...Show more
Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Category: Health
"Savvy and insightful." --New York Times 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 lea ...Show more
Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle
Category: Culture
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
Category: Politics
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: that we have stopped having face-to-face conversation in favour of technological connections such as texts or e ...Show more
Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
Category: Reference | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life S.
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkl ...Show more
The Empathy Diaries - A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
Category: Biography
"A beautiful book... an instant classic of the genre." --Dwight Garner, New York Times - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work For decades, Sherry Turkle ...Show more
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