The ironic tension between these two facts is echoed in the subtitle of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. And it is perhaps equally significant that she posts this intensely intimate form of communication publicly - an act integral to all the Web 2.0 technologies Turkle studies and knows so well. A must read, this is a rare letter, as the author's first words indicate: "TO REBECCA, My letter to you, with love" (p.v). It is significant that she does so using a format that would seem to be an anomaly for a digitally-fluent mother speaking to her born-digital daughter - a letter.
With her newest book, Alone Together (Basic Books), Sherry Turkle, the ethnographer of people's relationship with technology, completes a trilogy begun with The Second Self in 1984.
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