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“Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplug
Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social studies of science and technology there, she also heads up its Initiative on Technology and Self. Her new book, Alone Together, completes a trilogy of investigations into … Continue reading
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Hit Send, Take a Bow
Facebook might have made Holden Caulfield’s head explode. The narrator of “The Catcher in the Rye” famously hated phonies and thus, naturally, the theater, with its masks and facades. One can imagine what he would have thought of writing a Facebook profile, an exercise that, as Sherry Turkle notes in “Alone Together,” involves presenting oneself … Continue reading
