Sherry Turkle’s “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age” is a vital exploration of how technology impacts our relationships and well-being. This thought-provoking book, praised by figures like Aziz Ansari, examines the subtle ways digital connection replaces genuine conversation, leading to decreased empathy, creativity, and productivity. Turkle, a renowned MIT professor, draws on extensive research to reveal how our reliance on texting and social media diminishes face-to-face communication, affecting everything from family dinners to workplace dynamics. It argues for the crucial role of real-world dialogue in fostering empathy, strengthening relationships, and enhancing our capacity for self-reflection. “Reclaiming Conversation” offers a compelling case for prioritizing human interaction in a tech-saturated world, providing insights and strategies for rediscovering the power of talk. This reprint is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper connection and mindful technology use.
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on. Aziz Ansari, author of Modern Romance
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivityand why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. 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 dont have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.
We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. 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.
The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. 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. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.
But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures.
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. The most humanand humanizingthing that we do.
The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.
Turkle’s latest book, The Empathy Diaries (3/2/21) is available now.
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| ISBN-10 | 0143109790 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780143109792 |
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| Pages | 448 |
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| Weight | 340 |
| Edition | Reprint |
