ONE KETCHIKAN ONE BOOK 2012
Thank you for voting! The winner is:
Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, by Sherry Turkle. I can't say it any better than the first paragraph a The New York Times review: "Teenagers who send and receive six to eight thousand texts a month and spend hours a day on Facebook. Mourners who send text messages during a memorial service because they can’t go an hour without using their BlackBerries.... High school students who wonder how much they should tilt their Facebook profiles toward what their friends will think is cool, or what college admissions boards might prize." (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books) Author Turkle is a professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a clinical psychologist, and she presents her view in this book that email, Facebook, and other technologies are lessening our dependency on each other. Here's an interview with the author from NPR which you can read or listen to.
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