Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book delves into the social lives of networked teens, exploring how technology intersects with their everyday lives, hopes, and concerns. The author examines how technology reflects humanity's flaws and everyday interests, challenging assumptions about its transformative power.
The topic of her book, it's complicated.
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This book delves into the social lives of networked teens, exploring how technology intersects with their everyday lives, hopes, and concerns. The author examines how technology reflects humanity's flaws and everyday interests, challenging assumptions about its transformative power.
The topic of her book, it's complicated.
I wanted to see what would happen, not at the margins, not at the edges, not at the grand level, but what happens when these technologies are just a part of life?
And part of that technological perspective is also because there were all of these great hopes and dreams. The internet would be this magical transformation, it would create a level of egalitarianism, it would bring about the next enlightenment, all of these big dreams.
And what intrigued me was that as these technologies became part of everyday life, what we saw is that people brought with them all of their flaws, all of their everyday concerns and interests.
the internet mirrors, magnifies, and makes more visible, the good, bad, and the ugly of everyday life