Alone Together
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
By Sherry Turkle
(Basic Books, Paperback, 9780465031467, 384pp.)
Publication Date: October 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD, Paperback
Categories: Interpersonal Relations, Social Aspects - General, Social Psychology
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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 relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, 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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