Turkle attributes the loss of empathy29 largely to their inability to navigate the online world without losing track of their real-time, face-to-face relationships. In her view our technologies place us at a remove, which changes not only who we are as individuals but also who we are with one another.
I cannot speak for or against a study I did not read, but when we have suffered through wars during the years before the Internet, before televison, and before the radio, I struggle to endorse reading as the means to promote globsl or even local empathy
