SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sherry Turkle, Social Science

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Going solo: the extraordinary rise and appeal of living alone. We expect more from tech and not from people. All in the age of texting more and interacting less. Corps are now using social media to find candidates and consumers, like facebook data etc. Social media is seen as a substitute for actually seeing stuff. Thesis: more and mores foldka asre projecting human qualities in robots, and less to actual humans. Instead of friends we have followers, instead of phone calls we text. This causes a generation of emotionally lazy people, and people use other people and view other people as objects. New technologies have diminished social interaction, and give us lots of control and convenience. We have diminishing expectations for other human beings. He argues what it means to be alone, and says that being alone doesn"t necessarily mean that they"re lonely.

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