Continuing in our mobile etiquette countdown, we arrive at part two, affectionately known as numbers five through one. If you missed numbers ten through six (and what a shame that would be), please scroll down the page to find yesterday’s entry (or simply click HERE). 5. Kids are smarter than you think. Even infants and [...]
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Is Your Cell Phone Affecting Your Self-Esteem?
October 20th, 2009
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Sherry Turkle is the founder and director of MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self in Massachusetts. In a chapter she published for the Handbook of Mobile Communication Technologies, Turkle addressed the emerging idea of the “tethered self.” The tethered self, says Turkle, is a relatively new phenomenon, the result of a collision between social networks [...]
