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January 26th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Professor Sherry Turkle, director of MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self has stated that technology such as Facebook and Twitter threaten to dominate our lives, make us socially insular and ultimately make us “less human”.
Professor Turkle goes on to claim that the use of technology has become a form of “modern madness” and argues that we are under the…
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May 11th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
What would life be like without a cell phone, computer and all the social media links associated with them? A new study labelled “24 Hours Unplugged” asked college students to resist the use of social media links including cell phones and computer use for 24 hours. They lived to write about it.
And write they did. The 200 students who…
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