![]() ![]() Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465093656 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 338 g Dimensions: 211 x 142 x 26 mm You may also be interested in. 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. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. 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. 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. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. ![]() 2013 by Sherry Turkle (Author) 781 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 26.15 11 Used from 5.59 4 New from 26.15 1 Collectible from 5. 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. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Paperback 7 Feb. ![]() She mourns the end of a time when one could become completely disconnected from ones. ![]() Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Turkle ends with a conversation with her daughter who is studying in Paris. ![]()
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