Previous edition: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.