Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Alone Together is a mighty fine layperson's introduction to where
we are as a technological and social media
society."--BlogCritics.org
"Alone Together stands as an entirely accessible, tantalizingly
thought-provoking read.... Books like this and researchers like
Turkle lending their expertise to the debate are absolute
necessities."--Online Education Database
"Alone Together... is packed with creative observations on our
machine-mediated lives and what this all means for intimacy,
solitude, and being connected."
--Spirituality and Practice
"[Turkle's] decades of teaching technology and daily living add
authority to her fine survey!"--Bookwatch
"[Turkle] summarizes her new view of things with typical
eloquence...fascinating, readable."--New York Times Book Review
"A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with
technology."--Newsweek.com
"Amidst the deluge of propaganda, technophilia and idolatry that
masquerades as objective assessment of digital culture, Turkle
offers us galoshes and a sump pump.... [S]he gives a clear-eyed,
reflective and wise assessment of what we gain and lose in the
current configurations of digital culture."
--Christian Century
"Clear-eyed, even-keeled."--Touch Points blog
"Compelling."--Library Hot blog
"Disturbing. Compelling. Powerful."--Seattle Times
"Highly recommended."
--Choice
"Important.... Admirably personal.... [Turkle's] book will spark
useful debate."--Boston Globe
"In this beautifully written, provocative and worrying book,
Turkle, a professor at MIT, a clinical psychologist and, perhaps,
the world's leading expert on the social and psychological effects
of technology, argues that internet use has as much power to
isolate and destroy relationships as it has to bring us
together."
--Financial Times
"Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what
we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated
social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a
sense of humor, Turkle surveys the front lines of the
social-digital transformation."--Lev Grossman, TIME
"Readers will find this book a useful resource as they begin
conversations about how to negotiate and critically engage the
technology that suffuses our lives."--National Catholic
Reporter
"Savvy and insightful."
--New York Times
"The picture that arises from [Alone Together] is not particularly
comforting but it is always compelling and helps explain many
behaviors one sees at play in society at large these days,
especially among the young."--Jewish Exponent
"Turkle is a gifted and imaginative writer... [who] pushes
interesting arguments with an engaging style."--American
Prospect
"Turkle is a sensitive interviewer and an elegant
writer."--Slate.com
"Turkle is clearly passionate in describing what she sees as the
looming social isolation being wrought by the new technology....
Alone Together does offer a needed counter to the wholesale
adoption of the social media and social robot."--PsyCritiques
"Turkle is too smart and hard-working to see technology solely as a
cause of social or psychological disorders: this is not the book to
read for shallow complaints that young people don't care about
privacy or for scare stories about internet addiction."
--ZDNet UK
"Turkle's emphasis on personal stories from computer gadgetry's
front lines keeps her prose engaging and her message to the human
species-to restrain ourselves from becoming technology's willing
slaves instead of its guiding masters-loud and
clear."--Booklist
"Turkle's prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to
be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to
their machines and further away from each other."
--Publishers Weekly
"Vivid, even lurid, in its depictions of where we are headed...
[an] engrossing study."--Washington Post
"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."
--Wall Street Journal
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