In her book Alone Together, Sherry Turkle discusses the emergence of “robots” and how this event effects people with access to these robots. She begins her analysis by focusing on the effects of Tamagotchis and Furbies on children. Turkle plays with the idea that these first forms of robots have been impacting the way people [...]
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Intensification. Enabler to what facilitates us.
In his book Watching YouTube, Dr. Strangelove addresses a number of effects of new media on society. In the chapter The YouTube Wars, he discusses the notion of intensification and how this affects global societies. With the emergence of the Internet comes a new level of globalization. Anyone with access to an Internet connection becomes [...]
