Matt Susan J. - Bored Lonely Angry Stupid Changing Feelings About Technology From The Telegraph To Twitter - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An Entrepreneur Best Book of the Year Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states but in this lively investigation of changing feelings about technology we learn that the gadgets we use don t just affect how we feel they can profoundly change our sense of self. When we say we re bored we don t mean the same thing as a Victorian dandy. Could it be that political punditry has helped shape a new kind of anger? Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt take us back in time to consider how our feelings of loneliness boredom vanity and anger have evolved in tandem with new technologies. Technologies have been shaping our emotional culture for more than a century argue computer scientist Luke Fernandez and historian Susan Matt in this original study. Marshalling archival sources and interviews they trace how norms (say around loneliness) have shifted with technological change. Nature A powerful story of how new forms of technology are continually integrated into the human experience. Publishers Weekly
Title: Bored Lonely Angry Stupid Changing Feelings About Technology From The Telegraph To Twitter
Author(s): Matt Susan J.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Barcode: 9780674244726
Pages: 480 Pages, 21 Photos, 4 Illus.
Publication Date: 7/7/2020
Category: Ethical & Social Aspects Of It