Analysis Of Sherry Turkle's Growing Up Tethered

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Have you ever thought about how technology is controlling your life? Then you should read Sherry Turkle’s “Growing Up Tethered”, and how her perspective on how technology and online interactions influence identity construction. “Growing up Tethered”, is a piece from her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, and in this essay, Mrs. Turkle identifies and examines the adolescents growing up tethered to the wide force of technology that has come to characterize society. In more detail “growing up tethered” is stating that today’s adolescents are connected to peer pressure and in most cast parent surveillance. Turkle believes that teens must always be available to their friends and that they need a phone

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