Social Networking and the Spirits of the Age
Social media such as Facebook are formative in the lives of many North American teens. There is no end in sight to […]
Tag: Technology
Technology Has a Message
It is often stated that technology is merely a tool. The typical argument goes something like this: it’s not the technology itself, […]
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts,” wrote McLuhan. Rather, they alter “patterns of perception […]
Alone Together
Sherry Turkle, The Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and founder and director of […]