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Author Fernandez, Luke, author.

Title Bored, lonely, angry, stupid : changing feelings about technology, from the telegraph to Twitter / Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  303.48 FERNANDEZ    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  303.48 FER    Check Shelf
Description 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary Do our digital habits kill our attention span or alter the nature of focus? Is social media driving us apart or changing the meaning of social relationships? How we answer these questions will hinge on what we value. This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to new technologies, from the telegraph to the smart phone, argues that we are profoundly changed by them. Today, for example, we are increasingly distrustful of social media, yet we have a hard time separating ourselves from the technologies we don't trust. It turns out this is not new: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid reveals how past technological innovations aroused intense feelings and altered our sense of self.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From vanity to narcissism -- The lonely cloud -- The flight from boredom -- Pay attention -- Awe -- Anger rising.
Subject Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Technology -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States.
Technological innovations -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Technological innovations -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145044
Technological innovations -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145049
Technology -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145177
Technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145202
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States.
Added Author Matt, Susan J. (Susan Jipson), 1967- author.
ISBN 9780674983700 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
067498370X (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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