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Sherry Turkle’s latest book on identity shifts in the Internet age takes a more pessimistic view on the role of technology in re-shaping our daily lives…
In Turkle’s latest book, “Alone Together,” this optimism is long gone. If the Internet of 1995 was a postmodern playhouse, allowing individuals to engage in unbridled expression, Turkle describes it today as a corporate trap, a ball and chain that keeps us tethered to the tiny screens of our cellphones, tapping out trite messages to stay in touch. She summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence: “We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
via Book Review – Alone Together – By Sherry Turkle – NYTimes.com.
Other reviews of Sherry Turkle’s Together Alone
- Review of Alone Together by Sherry Turkle (fredbortz.scienceblog.com)
- Sherry Turkle’s ‘Alone Together’: lonely in a world with 1,000 virtual distractions (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- zeroinfluencer: We, Robots — “You are who you pretend to be.” (nytimes.com)
- Antisocial media (boston.com)
- Is social media bad or good? The debate heats up (rossdawsonblog.com)
- Stephen Colbert Asks Sherry Turkle: What Is There To Live For Without Latest iPhone?! (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
- Why So Lonely? Don’t Blame Technology (bigthink.com)
- Giles Slade: Alone Together: Interviewing Sherry Turkle and Michael Bugeja. (huffingtonpost.com)
- MIT’s Sherry Turkle on Technology and Real-World Communication (time.com)
- The lonely crowd (textually.org)
