Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

By L. Wickman. 2014

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The digital platform: a research agenda (2018, background): “Facebook may not only offer uniquely new opportunities for sociality to be rendered into computed categorisations (Alaimo and Kallinikos, 2016), but may indeed also support the displacement of co-present interaction (Putnam, 2000; Turkle, 2011).”
Editorial Expression of Concern and Correction (2014, background): “Further, others have suggested that in online social networks, exposure to the happiness of others may actually be depressing to us, producing an “alone together” social comparison effect (6).”
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014, background): “Further, others have suggested that in online social networks, exposure to the happiness of others may actually be depressing to us, producing an “alone together” social comparison effect (6).”