Feeling Lonely? You’ve Got Company
Podcast |
Innovation Hub
Publisher |
PRX
WGBH
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Oct 18, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:27:53

We’ve all got friends — hundreds of them, if you believe what Facebook’s telling you — but many of us are still worried about being lonely. So worried that it might be surprising to learn that hundreds of years ago, being alone was considered a virtue. But according to Susan Matt and Luke Fernandez, both professors at Weber State University, how we view emotions is changing all the time.

Matt and Fernandez, authors of “Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter” explain how technology influences the way we see loneliness, boredom, and a whole host of other emotions.

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