Alone Together, Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together (2011) offers a penetrating sociological and psychological examination of the ways digital technologies—particularly social media, mobile devices, and artificial intelligence—reshape human relationships, self-perception, and expectations of intimacy. Drawing on decades of ethnographic research, Turkle argues that the more connected we become through screens, the more isolated we feel in our inner lives. This paradox—the simultaneous amplification of connectivity and erosion of authentic human contact—serves as the conceptual backbone of her work.
