Centre for Internet & Society

Interface Intimacies is a research cluster that is interested in digging deep into interfaces, to examine peoples’ relationships with the digital interfaces around them with a special focus on Asia.

Interface Intimacies

Posted by Audrey Yue and Namita A Malhotra at Mar 23, 2012 04:50 AM |

Sherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, talked about how the digital technologies, replacing interface time with face-time, are slowly alienating us from our social networks. There has been an increasing amount of anxiety around how people in immersive and ubiquitous computing and web environments are living lives which are connected online but not connected with their social and political contexts.

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