39 pages 1 hour read

Sherry Turkle

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

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Essay Topics

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What are arguments for and against what Turkle calls the “behaviorism of the robotic movement” (72)?

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Is it a sure thing that we will devalue the concept of “love” the way Turkle thinks, or is Lindman more correct when she says that a machine can be authentic in the same way a person can be?   

3.

What does Turkle mean when she says “the inauthentic as a new aesthetic”? 

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