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Alone Together

Alone Together

by SherryTurkle (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.

In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 03 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 0465010210
ISBN 13: 9780465010219
Book Overview: EXPERT AUTHOR: Sherry Turkle is a major scholar in the robotics, neuroscience, and psych/media/cultural studies worlds. She is one of the foremost intellectuals interested in the intersections between virtual life, technology, and human behavior, and has a strong following. *NEW RESEARCH: In 2001, Turkle founded the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Through this organisation, she has conducted a decade of research and reflection on the subjective side of technology, raising the level of public discourse on the social and psychological dimensions of technological change. *BROAD AUDIENCE: With the rise of identity technologies in the 21st century, everyone who owns a Blackberry, surfs the internet, or remembers nurturing a Tamagotchi in the 1990s will have enormous interest in Alone Together. In these techno-enthusiastic times, we brag about our new gadgets and ability to be accessible 24/7; Turkle asks what the consequences of this all-encompassing zeitgeist are. *MAJOR AUTHOR PLATFORM: Turkle is the first woman to have appeared on the cover of Wired magazine. Her work and expertise has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and US Glamour, among others.

Media Reviews
Jill Conway, President emerita, Smith College, and author of The Road from Coorain
Based on an ambitious research program, and written in a clear and beguiling style, this book which will captivate both scholar and general reader and it will be a landmark in the study of the impact of social media.
Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory
Sherry Turkle is the Margaret Mead of digital culture. Parents and teachers: If you want to understand (and support) your children as they navigate the emotional undercurrents in today's technological world, this is the book you need to read. Every chapter is full of great insights and great writing.
Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants No one has a better handle on how we are using material technology to transform our immaterial 'self' than Sherry Turkle. She is our techno-Freud, illuminating our inner transformation long before we

New York Times Book Review
[Turkle] summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence...fascinating, readable. Wall Street Journal
What [Turkle] brings to the topic that is new is more than a decade of interviews with teens and college students in which she plumbs the psychological effect of our brave new devices on the generation that seems most comfortable with them.

Newsweek.com
A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology.

Natural History Magazine
A fascinating, insightful and disquieting intimate ethnography of our digital, robotic moment in history.

American Prospect
Turkle is a gifted and imaginative writer...[who] pushes interesting arguments with an engaging style.

Jill Conway, President emerita, Smith College, and author of The Road from Coorain
Based on an ambitious research program, and written in a clear and beguiling style, this book which will captivate both scholar and general reader and it will be a landmark in the study of the impact of social media. Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory
Sherry Turkle is the Margaret Mead of digital culture. Parents and teachers: If you want to understand (and support) your children as they navigate the emotional undercurrents in today's technological world, this is the book you need to read. Every chapter is full of great insights and great writing.
Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants No one has a better handle on how we are using material technology to transform our immaterial 'self' than Sherry Turkle. She is our techno-Freud, illuminating our inner transformation long before we are able see it. This immensely satisfying book is a deep journey to our future selves.
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed Alone Together is a deep yet accessible, bold yet gentle, frightening yet reassuring accoun


New York Times Book Review
[Turkle] summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence...fascinating, readable. Wall Street Journal
What [Turkle] brings to the topic that is new is more than a decade of interviews with teens and college students in which she plumbs the psychological effect of our brave new devices on the generation that seems most comfortable with them.

Newsweek.com
A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology.

Natural History Magazine
A fascinating, insightful and disquieting intimate ethnography of our digital, robotic moment in history.

American Prospect
Turkle is a gifted and imaginative writer...[who] pushes interesting arguments with an engaging style.

Jill Conway, President emerita, Smith College, and author of The Road from Coorain
Based on an ambitious research program, and written in a clear and beguiling style, this book which will captivate both scholar and general reader and it will be a landmark in the study of the impact of social media. Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory
Sherry Turkle is the Margaret Mead of digital culture. Parents and teachers: If you want to understand (and support) your children as they navigate the emotional undercurrents in today's technological world, this is the book you need to read. Every chapter is full of great insights and great writing.
Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants No one has a better handle on how we are using material technology to transform our immaterial 'self' than Sherry Turkle. She is our techno-Freud, illuminating our inner transformation long before we are able see it. This immensely satisfying book is a deep journey to our future selves.
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed Alone Together is a deep yet accessible, bold yet gentle, frightening yet reassuring account


Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory
 Sherry Turkle is the Margaret Mead of digital culture. Parents and teachers: If you want to understand (and support) your children as they navigate the emotional undercurrents in today's technological world, this is the book you need to read. Every chapter is full of great insights and great writing.
Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants No one has a better handle on how we are using material technology to transform our immaterial 'self' than Sherry Turkle. She is our techno-Freud, illuminating our inner transformation long before we are able see it. This immensely satisfying book is a deep journey to our future selves.
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed Alone Together is a deep yet accessible, bold yet gentle, frightening yet reassuring account of how people continue to find one another in an increasingly mediated landscape. If the net and humanity could have a couples therapist, it would be Sherry Turkle. Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

New York Times Book Review
 [Turkle] summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence...fascinating, readable.

Wall Street Journal
 What [Turkle] brings to the topic that is new is more than a decade of interviews with teens and college students in which she plumbs the psychological effect of our brave new devices on the generation that seems most comfortable with them.

Newsweek.com
 A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology.

Natural History Magazine
 A fascinating, insightful and disquieting intimate ethnography of our digital, robotic moment in history.

American Prospect
 Turkle is a gifted and imaginative writer...[who] pushes interesting arguments with an engaging style.

Jill Conway, President emerita, Smith College, and author of The Road from Coorain
 Based on an ambitious research program, and written in a clear and beguiling style, this book which will captivate both scholar and general reader and it will be a landmark in the study of the impact of social media.

Author Bio
Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. She is frequently interviewed in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, on NBC News, and more. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.