Bored, lonely, angry, stupid: changing feelings about technology, from the telegraph to Twitter

Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the...

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1. Verfasser: Fernandez, Luke (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First Harvard University Press paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the telegraph to the smart phone, argues that we are profoundly changed by them. Today, for example, we are increasingly distrustful of social media, yet we have a hard time separating ourselves from the technologies we don't trust. It turns out this is not new: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid reveals how past technological innovations aroused intense feelings and altered our sense of self.--
Beschreibung:464 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 25 cm
ISBN:9780674244726

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