The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Norway

Region is based on IP address

Alone Together

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Alone Together

By Sherry Turkle

3 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

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 new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Even the presence of sociable robots in our lives...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780465093656

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Alone Together

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Other versions

Alone Together

Alone Together

Paperback · 2012

Reviews · 0

3 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

You might also like

The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

The Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Technology is Not the Problem

Technology is Not the Problem

Timandra Harkness

Find Your People Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

Find Your People Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

Jennie Allen

The Empathy Diaries A Memoir

The Empathy Diaries A Memoir

Sherry Turkle

The Life We're Looking For Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

The Life We're Looking For Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

Andy Crouch

Alone With You in the Ether

Alone With You in the Ether

Olivie Blake

The lonely century

The lonely century

Noreena Hertz

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open

Tanya Goodin

The digital disconnect

The digital disconnect

Ellen Helsper

Together Loneliness, Health and what Happens when We Find Connection

Together Loneliness, Health and what Happens when We Find Connection

Vivek Hallegere Murthy

The joy of being online all the f*cking time

The joy of being online all the f*cking time

Jennifer McCartney

Alone Time

Alone Time

Stephanie Rosenbloom

Digital Minimalism

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

The age of surveillance capitalism

The age of surveillance capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

The Anatomy of Loneliness

The Anatomy of Loneliness

Teal Swan

Technically Wrong

Technically Wrong

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Solitude

Solitude

Filling the Void

Filling the Void

Marcus Gilroy-Ware

The Happiness Effect

The Happiness Effect

Donna Freitas

Reclaiming Conversation

Reclaiming Conversation

Sherry Turkle

Personal Connections in the Digital Age

Personal Connections in the Digital Age

Nancy K. Baym

The End of Absence

The End of Absence

Michael Harris

It's Complicated

It's Complicated

danah boyd

Mind Change

Mind Change

Susan Greenfield

Age of context

Age of context

Robert Scoble

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Matthew D. Lieberman

The Private Life

The Private Life

Josh Cohen

Identity Problems in the Facebook Era

Identity Problems in the Facebook Era

Daniel Trottier

The Culture of Connectivity

The Culture of Connectivity

Jose van Dijck

Alone Together

Alone Together

Sherry Turkle

Oversharing

Oversharing

Agger, Ben

Alone Together Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Alone Together Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle

Tales from Facebook

Tales from Facebook

Daniel. Grumiller

Connected The Amazing Power of Social Networks and how They Shape Our Lives

Connected The Amazing Power of Social Networks and how They Shape Our Lives

Nicholas A. Christakis

Loneliness

Loneliness

John T. Cacioppo

The connected family

The connected family

Seymour Papert

Disconnected

Disconnected

Carrie (Harvard University) James