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On Being with Krista Tippett
In this book, the author explores the reasons behind the increasing number of people choosing to live alone in modern society, suggesting that it may be a response to oversaturation from various social connections.
The book is all about why more people live alone now today than ever before.
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Episode: [Unedited] danah boyd with Krista Tippett
In this book, the author explores the reasons behind the increasing number of people choosing to live alone in modern society, suggesting that it may be a response to oversaturation from various social connections.
The book is all about why more people live alone now today than ever before.
And what he argues in this book is that we are oversaturated with internet connections with other people, our professional worlds are far more social than they were historically, especially when you think about agricultural times or industrial times.
We have the choice to connect at any given point through social interactions and as a result we choose to live alone in order to get a break from it all, which isn't tweaking.
Episode: danah boyd — The Internet of the Good, the Bad, an...
This book examines the increasing number of people living alone and suggests that this trend is partly due to the oversaturation of social connections in our modern, technology-driven lives.
The person I think about is Eric Kleinenberg who's a sociologist who wrote a book called Going Solo and the book is all about why more people live alone now today than ever before.
Episode: danah boyd — The Internet of the Good, the Bad, an...
This book explores the reasons behind the increasing number of people living alone today, suggesting that it's a response to the oversaturated social connections in modern life.
The person I think about is Eric Kleinenberg who's a sociologist who wrote a book called Going Solo and the book is all about why more people live alone now today than ever before.