Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age
Electronic communication now keeps us connected, wired, and cabled to the entire world. Why, then, do we often feel displaced and increasingly isolated in the global village? Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age seeks to answer the question: have media and technology created a social gap, eroding our sense of community? Author Michael Bugeja tackles this question by taking a broad and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating a number of different viewpoints,...
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Bugeja analyzes the "interpersonal divide" that develops between people who spend too much time in virtual rather than real communities, and makes a case for face-to-face communication in a high-tech world. Using an applied ethics perspective, he assesses the changes resulting from the Technology Revolution of the 1990s and calls for moderation in electronic media consumption. Each chapter concludes with a journal exercise and discussion questions. The author of 18 books, Bugeja teaches journalism and communication at Iowa State University. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction : the need to belong11Displacement in the global village132The human condition403Habits of a high-tech age614Impact of media and technology815Blurring of identity and place986The medium is the moral1227Icons and caricatures1428Living three-dimensionally1619Repatriation to the village179
