Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on interviews with hundreds of children and adults, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

[美] 雪莉·特克尔（Sherry Turkle）

☆ 麻省理工学院社会学教授，麻省理工学院科技与自我创新中心主任，哈佛大学社会学和人格心理学博士。

☆ 采用“实地研究”和“临床诊断”两种方法，对人与信息技术的关系进行了长达15年的系统研究，被誉为网络文化领域的“玛格丽特•米德”。

☆ 在哈佛大学获得社会学和人格心理学博士学位后，进入麻省理工学院开始研究计算机文化，并成为人与技术关系领域首屈一指的社会心理学家。《连线》创始主编凯文•凯利称她为技术领域的“弗洛伊德”。