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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (CD-Audio)
$34.19 - Save $10.80 24% off - RRP $44.99 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Alone TogetherMIT professor Sherry Turkle tackles the precarious balance between isolation and connectivity introduced by the growth of social networking technologies.
Full description- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Published: 10 May 2011
- Format: CD-Audio
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- Categories: Media Studies | Computing: General | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Human-computer Interaction
- ISBN 13: 9781452601915 ISBN 10: 1452601917
- Sales rank: 999,907
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Full description for Alone Together
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.
