Dr Sue Timmis: Co-Director – Centre for Knowledge, Culture and Society, School of Education, University of Bristol
Alone Together was written by Sherry Turkle (2011), a digital ethnographer, and explores how technology is helping to shape what it means to be human. It makes a rather one-sided claim that technology is replacing social interaction and human contact. Writing in the midst of an unprecedented world pandemic, nothing seems further from the truth. The need for social interaction is increasing and many of us are seeking ways to exploit technology to achieve this. (more…)