Sociologist Nathan Jurgenson has an apt term for this tendency to establish a firm split between the online and the offline; he…

“Sociologist Nathan Jurgenson has an apt term for this tendency to establish a firm split between the online and the offline; he calls it “digital dualism” and argues that it underpins much of contemporary debate about digital technologies, particularly evident in widespread concerns that “the virtual” is impinging on “the real” or that online connections are somehow inferior to offline ones. In reality, however, things are never that neat, and the universe we live in is rather a hybrid of the two worlds—moreover, it has always been that way (Jurgenson’s arguments, while limited to various digital technologies, fit within a broader intellectual critique, advanced most persuasively by historians and sociologists of science, holding that the splits between humanity and technology and nature and society are themselves artificial and have a history).”

– Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist. London: Allen Lane, 2013. (viacarvalhais)