Main entry:

Turkle, Sherry, author.

Title & Author:

Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle.

Edition:

Third edition.
Revised and expanded edition.
Revised trade paperback edition.

Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xxvi, 360 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in 2011"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index.
Nearest neighbors -- Alive enough -- True companions -- Enchantment -- Complicities -- Love's labor lost -- Communion -- Always on -- Growing up tethered -- No need to call -- Reduction and betrayal -- True confessions -- Anxiety -- The nostalgia of the young.

Summary:

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 deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.

ISBN:

9780465093656 (paperback)
0465093655 (paperback)
(2012 paperback)
9780465031467

Subject:

Information technology Social aspects.
Interpersonal relations.
Human-computer interaction.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Media Studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304921
Call No.: BIB 250657
Status: Available