![]() The increased technology service of always-on communication and telegraphic speed has changed the rules of social engagement among young people. ![]() ![]() Turkle organized her interviews and findings into subcategories: “Degrees of Separation,” “The Collaborative Self,” “The Avatar of Me,” and “Presentation Anxiety.” Immediately, this chapter was opened with the many experiences of young people who expressively need to feel connected with others at all times, urgently, and at all costs (whether it is to risk their own lives to check text messages while driving, getting into accidents when walking, or interrupting a phone call to answer an ‘unknown’ phone call) (171). In Sherry Turkle’s book, Alone Together, I was especially intrigued with chapter 9 “Growing Up Tethered.” This chapter emphasized the shifts in adolescents’ behavior, attitudes, and feelings of the self and social relationships while growing up with an increase use in technology.ġ) Description: In this chapter, Turkle explored the networked life through the perspectives and psychological lens of adolescents and its effects on intimacy, solitude, emotions, autonomy and identity formation. ![]()
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