The original social network The Village Effect Why Face-to-Face Contact Matters Susan Pinker Atlantic Books, 2015. 432 pp

Forging personal connections in the digital age In The Village Effect , Susan Pinker charges directly into the fierce debate over whether technology has a negative impact on our ability to create and sustain face-to-face relationships. In a lively book written for an intelligent general audience, sh...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2015-08, Vol.349 (6249), p.698-698
Main Author: Wellman, Barry
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Forging personal connections in the digital age In The Village Effect , Susan Pinker charges directly into the fierce debate over whether technology has a negative impact on our ability to create and sustain face-to-face relationships. In a lively book written for an intelligent general audience, she uses a mixture of human-interest stories and summaries of scholarly evidence to show the importance of in-person ties. Although he believes Pinker relies too heavily on pastoralist nostalgia at the expense of analyzing representative examples of how people choose to live today, reviewer Barry Wellman praises the book for providing important evidence in support of interpersonal relationships.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1261448