Stephen Marche, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Novelist and Columnist for Esquire
- Position:
- Con to the question "Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society?"
- Reasoning:
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“Social media – from Facebook to Twitter – have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic) – and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill…
What Facebook has revealed about human nature – and this is not a minor revelation – is that a connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation, no ticket to a happier, better world or a more liberated version of humanity. Solitude used to be good for self-reflection and self-reinvention. But now we are left thinking about who we are all the time, without ever really thinking about who we are. Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a while, the chance to disconnect.”
“Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” Atlantic, May 2012
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Novelist
- Monthly Columnist, Esquire
- Opinion writer, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Salon.com, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star
- Former Professor of Renaissance Drama, City College of New York
- Education:
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- PhD, Early Modern Drama, University of Toronto (Canada), 2005
- Other:
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- Twitter handle: @StephenMarche
- Is represented by Janklow and Nesbit Associates
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society?