The Connection Gap
Subtitle: Why Americans Feel So Alone
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: July 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813529790
Subjects: Popular culture; Social isolation; Sociology; USA; Mental Health; Sociology - General; Alienation (Social psychology); Loneliness
Description: "Shopping online. Chatting on the cell phone. Computer games. Instant travel to wherever you want to go. Yet all these conveniences and entertainment come at a high price. By surrounding ourselves with gadgets and material comfort, we are cutting ourselves off from what matters most: our fellow human beings.".

"The Connection Gap explores the new loneliness of people who are overcommitting and underconnecting. Laura Pappano takes a passionate look at the pressures and desires of modern culture by drawing on personal experience, academic studies, and perceptive observations of our culture as reflected in advertising, literature, and popular magazines."--BOOK JACKET.