Depression & Mood Disorders, Social Psychology, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, Characteristics & Qualities - Self-Improvement
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Overview
"Shopping online. Chatting on the cell phone. Computer games. Instant travel to wherever you want to go. Yet all these conveniences and entertainment come at a high price. By surrounding ourselves with gadgets and material comfort, we are cutting ourselves off from what matters most: our fellow human beings." "The Connection Gap explores the new loneliness of people who are overcommitting and underconnecting. Laura Pappano takes a passionate look at the pressures and desires of modern culture by drawing on personal experience, academic studies, and perceptive observations of our culture as reflected in advertising, literature, and popular magazines."--BOOK JACKET.Editorials
Booknews
Pappano, a journalist who writes an education column for , draws on personal experience as well as academic studies and observations of media and consumer habits to ponder modern life, when people are hyperconnected through e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, and fax machines and yet feel disconnected from each other and their communities. Looking at the benefits and drawbacks of technology, she considers the ways most Americans are leading more solitary and inwardly focused lives, and how they might begin closing the space that's opened up between them. "The Connection Gap," she writes, "is here not because we invited it but because we have not pushed it away. The challenge seems daunting, and yet the solution is straightforward: Only connect." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 31, 2001
Publisher
New Brunswick, N.J. ; Rutgers University Press, c2001.
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780813529790