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

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Turkle, Sherry.
Contributor:
Merlington, Laural.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Information technology--Social aspects.
Information technology.
Interpersonal relations.
Human-computer interaction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Edition:
Unabridged.
Place of Publication:
New York : Basic Books, c2011.
System Details:
audio file
Summary:
A wake-up call from a cyber-expert: our use of technology is fueling disturbing levels of isolation, leaving us incapable of distinguishing between true human connection and digital communication.
Contents:
Intro
CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE The Robotic Moment
1 nearest neighbors
2 alive enough
3 true companions
4 enchantment
5 complicities
6 love's labor lost
7 communion
PART TWO Networked
8 always on
9 growing up tethered
10 no need to call
11 reduction and betrayal
12 true confessions
13 anxiety
14 the nostalgia of the young
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE
NOTES
INDEX.
Participant:
Narrator: Laural Merlington.
Notes:
Unabridged.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-348) and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9786613094148
9780465022342
0465022340
9781283094146
1283094142
9781452601915
1452601917
9781452621913
1452621918
9781452671918
1452671915
OCLC:
748371036
Publisher Number:
MWT11075073

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