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Explores the influence of technology in modern day society. Turkle aimed to explain to the reader how
technology has altered day to day human communication and sought to propose a way that we should
be reacting and approaching this change. The central point of the article is a distinct lack of
communication among people as technology is allowing for faster and shorter bursts of connection.
Turkle claims that we have perfected being “alone together” and this has caused people to tend towards
being always plugged in and always online. She uses minor blurbs and anecdotes that she has picked up
over the years from students and others to explain how people’s mentalities towards communication
has changed. She also uses information gained from her time researching others to explain how people
think. Intending to strike the mentality of the modern-day

Turkle spends the majority of her argument exploring the influence of popular social media sites such

References

Alvarez, Alfredo (2018) A Critique of The Flight from Conversation, an Article by Sherry Turkle retrieve
from https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/a-critique-of-the-flight-from-conversation-an-article-by-
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Turkle, Sherry (2018) flight from conversation retrieve from https://www.123helpme.com/flight-from-
conversation-by-sherry-turkle-preview.asp?id=540610

Tyler (2018) Response to “The Flight from Conversation” Retrieve from

https://sites.psu.edu/arleseman/2014/09/01/response-to-the-flight-from-conversation/