Bored, lonely, angry, stupid : changing feelings about technology, from the telegraph to Twitter / Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernandez, Luke, author.

Matt, Susan J. (Susan Jipson), 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects--United States.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Psychological aspects.

United States.

Technology--United States--Psychological aspects.

Technological innovations--Social aspects--United States.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations--United States--Psychological aspects.

Technological innovations--Psychological aspects.

Technology--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the telegraph to the smart phone, argues that we are profoundly changed by them. Today, for example, we are increasingly distrustful of social media, yet we have a hard time separating ourselves from the technologies we don't trust. It turns out this is not new: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid reveals how past technological innovations aroused intense feelings and altered our sense of self.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From vanity to narcissism

The lonely cloud

The flight from boredom

Pay attention

Awe

Anger rising.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674983700

067498370X

OCLC:

1059271000