Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age

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Author: Michael Bugeja

ISBN-10: 0195173406

ISBN-13: 9780195173406

Category: Social Aspects of Technology

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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