The New Social Disease From High Tech Depersonalization to Survival of the Soul

by Laura, Ronald S.; Marchant, Tim; Smith, Susen R.

• ISBN13: 9780761841210
• ISBN10: 0761841210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-04
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

"The New Social Disease is about how we personalize our computers and associated technologies while depersonalizing others and ourselves. The well-researched content will provide readers with insights into how the increased use of technology-mediated communications has affected the way in which we live our lives, resulting in loneliness, depression, social isolation, and ultimately a rise in uncivil behaviors based upon frustration, hopelessness, and the devaluation of human life. Authors Laura, Marchant, and Smith explore the prevalence of uncivil behaviors in the world and in our schools, combined with increased physical and mental health problems with the aim of exploring the depersonalization of the school curriculum and providing ways to repersonalize education contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Susen R. Smith is Lecturer in Education at the University of New England, Australia. Ronald S. Laura is Professor of Education at the University of Newcastle Australia and a Perc Fellow of Harvard University.

Table of Contents

High Tech Depersonalization: Has Technology Stolen Your Soul?	p. 1
Technological Connections: Are You Too Plugged In?	p. 5
Technological Texturing of the Modern World	p. 23
Technologization of Education	p. 49
Depersonalization and the Internet	p. 67
Incivility	p. 83
Exploring the Implications of Depersonalization for Mental Health	p. 97
Hidden Dangers: The Physical Impacts	p. 111
Educational and Social Ramifications of Computer-Based Temporality	p. 131
Reconceptualizing Knowledge as Connectivity, Expressed Empathetically	p. 149
Towards a Better Life: Survival of the Soul	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 179
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