The article discusses how technology has changed communication, with the author finding that people increasingly prefer communicating through text or email rather than face-to-face conversations. After studying people's plugged-in lives for over 15 years, the author discovered that mobile devices have altered not just how people spend their time but who they are. Technology allows for a new form of "alone together" where one can be socially connected while physically alone through communicating on devices without direct interaction.
The article discusses how technology has changed communication, with the author finding that people increasingly prefer communicating through text or email rather than face-to-face conversations. After studying people's plugged-in lives for over 15 years, the author discovered that mobile devices have altered not just how people spend their time but who they are. Technology allows for a new form of "alone together" where one can be socially connected while physically alone through communicating on devices without direct interaction.
The article discusses how technology has changed communication, with the author finding that people increasingly prefer communicating through text or email rather than face-to-face conversations. After studying people's plugged-in lives for over 15 years, the author discovered that mobile devices have altered not just how people spend their time but who they are. Technology allows for a new form of "alone together" where one can be socially connected while physically alone through communicating on devices without direct interaction.
In the article “The Flight from Conversation “ by Sherry Turkle,
the author discuss how technology have change the way people communicate over the years. The article discuss not only people don’t talk face to face to each other but would rather use text message or e-mail to communicate. In the article the author spent over 15 years studying people and ask them about the plugged in lives and found the mobile devices have change the way people not only they do, but also who we are. People have become so accustomed to technologies that it is a new way of being alone together. A person have they personal space but can communicate with other without having to meet the the other person. Not only have technology have change our personal lives but also change the way people communicate in the office but can have a regular conversant with and employee without meeting them. Using technology to communicate commonly found among young people, a 16 years old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says almost wistfully. The act of having a conversation with face to face have change over the years, people rely on technology to communicate with each other.