TY - BOOK AU - Turkle,Sherry TI - Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other SN - 0465093655 AV - HM851 .T86 2017 U1 - 303.4833 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Information technology KW - Social aspects KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Technology KW - Attitude to Computers KW - Information Dissemination KW - Interpersonal Relations KW - Social Networking N1 - "Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in 2011"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Nearest neighbors -- Alive enough -- True companions -- Enchantment -- Complicities -- Love's labor lost -- Communion -- Always on -- Growing up tethered -- No need to call -- Reduction and betrayal -- True confessions -- Anxiety -- The nostalgia of the young N2 - Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. 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. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families ER -