Sherry Turkle has been one of the most incisive thinkers about how people interact with technology. Her 1995 book, “Life On the Screen: Identity In the Age of the Internet,” is one of the best books out there about the sociology of the Internet.

Now comes “Alone Together,” which is sitting in my Amazon shopping cart waiting for checkout, and which is getting Turkle a lot of press. Here’s a Guardian.co.uk article about the book, and here’s Turkle on The Colbert Report.

Anyone who’s ever been irritated by or participated in sitting at a dinner table where everyone at the table is busy texting on their phones — and isn’t that pretty much all of us? — should probably read this book.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 11:09 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, Social Media, This 'n' That.