Virtual communities

Connectivity through ‘digital saturation’ may come at the expense of conversation

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Social networking and texting have become a large part of many of our daily interactions. It can be hard to find someone who doesn’t have a cell phone or a Facebook account. Sherry Turkle believes that too much focus is put on these new technologies and that conversations are suffering a result of it.

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Global Politics

Cuba’s version of Wikipedia

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Texting and teen development

Health & Medicine

Lonely In A Digital Age

The World

Is technology tearing us apart?

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While all this technology might seem harmless or even beneficial to the masses, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and clinical psychologist, argues that it carries risks.