Alone Together : Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Third Edition) (9780465093656)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 400 pages
• Dimensions 142 x 211 x 26mm | 338g
• Publication date 30 Nov 2017
• Publisher Basic Books
• Publication City/Country London, United States
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition Statement 3rd ed.
• ISBN10 0465093655
• ISBN13 9780465093656
• Bestsellers rank 62,037

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