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Author Bugeja, Michael J.

Title Interpersonal divide : the search for community in a technological age / Michael Bugeja
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction : the need to belong -- 1. Displacement in the global village -- 2. The human condition -- 3. Habits of a high-tech age -- 4. Impact of media and technology -- 5. Blurring of identity and place -- 6. The medium is the moral -- 7. Icons and caricatures -- 8. Living three-dimensionally -- 9. Repatriation to the village
Summary This book focuses on a simple yet deceptively complex question: have media and technology created an interpersonal divide, eroding our sense of community? Bugeja approaches the question from a number of different vantage points - global, ethical, philosophical, historical, corporate, pop cultural, familial, and social. [from publisher's advertisement]
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Communities.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Social perception.
Interpersonal relations.
LC no. 2004049592
ISBN 0195173406 acid-free paper
0195173392 paperback acid-free paper