Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity--and why Reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating.
We have everything we need to start, we have each other..
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges.
The most human--and humanizing--thing that we do.
Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation.
Conversation cures.
But there is good news: we are resilient.
In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line.
Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers.
They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection.
Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with - a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.
At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work.
Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones.
The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents\' attention.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers.
Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don\'t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying Digital culture for over thirty years.
And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity--and why Reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating
