Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195173392 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. P. Reynolds said A solid contribution to the examination of high tech/high touch. Before writing this review, I read a post on a major news feed that reports the findings of a poll conducted by the General Social Survey which indicates that two-thirds of Americans believe people can't be trusted - a new high for this A solid contribution to the examination of high tech/high touch J. P. Reynolds Before writing this review, I read a post on a major news feed that reports the findings of a poll conducted by the General Social Survey which indicates that two-thirds of Americans believe people can't be trusted - a new high for this 40 year old poll. The need for community today has characteristics unlike those of fifty years ago - the issue of distrust being one of them. This text is a solid road map for examining the need of community and exploring the interplay between the personal and the technological. Does the author have biases? Sure. . 0 year old poll. The need for community today has characteristics unlike those of fifty years ago - the issue of distrust being one of them. This text is a solid road map for examining the need of community and exploring the interplay between the personal and the technological. Does the author have biases? Sure. . "Interesting and thoughtful book, with some key limitations" according to Argonaut. This is well worth the read, since the topic of what internet use and technology are doing to society and to people's social skills, is timely. Bugeja offers a number of cogent insights, but the downside of the book is the author's tendecy to repeat in the latter chapters what he'd made abundantly clear at the outset. As such, readers--and I have used this text with college students--begin to suspect that he is biased against new media and the growth of technology, which leads them to question his objectivity and, therefore, his critique and conc. Review of Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age William W. Bauser Michael Bugeja's presentation of the issues that surround the use of technology in todays world are clear and concise. His point of the need of face-to-face contact between individuals is vital in developing civic engagement within a civil society. However, what Mr Bugeja fails to realize is the recursive self-reflective thinking process of individuals who are engaged in civil discourse with the aide of technolgy. Even though it is true to recognize that marketing technics do diminish the thought process of passive participants with technology, y
Michael Bugeja is at Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
The emphasis here is on meaning and human communication, not a tired polemic on the inevitability of technological change. "Perhaps no previous scholar has synthesized the ways media technologies are harming a sense of community, especially in such a compact book. Larkin Professor, Fordham University"Michael Bugeja's Interpersonal Divide is a book of concerned prescription. Refreshing!" -- Everette Dennis, Distinguished Felix E. Bugeja largely lives up to the second goal he set for himself -- to produce a multidisciplinary work "to explain complex truths in plain language rather than to validate those truths via complex la
Electronic communication now keeps us connected, wired, and cabled to the entire world. Interpersonal Divide informs readers how to use media and technology wisely so that they enhance rather than replace community.. Bugeja analyzes the "interpersonal divide"--the void that develops between people when we spend too much time in virtual rather than in real communities--and makes a case for face-to-face communication in a technological world. Bugeja investigates the impact and motives of media ecosystems that have polluted the Internet and other digital devices with marketing ploys, delivering to