Image via WikipediaWhat is social media doing to us? An ironic question I guess since you are reading this on a blog, and likely on your phone or iPad! One MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, argues that all our technological connections are destructive to our real connectedness.�The Guardian describes the situation in its opening its coverage of her book:
The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist. "A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological," MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.
You can read the complete article below:
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer
And of course, she appeared on The Colbert Report and discussed her ideas there. Watch below and comment here on the blog (consider as Colbert asked whether texting is OK at a funeral?):
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We do live in interesting times...
David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/)
