Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age - Softcover

Sherry Turkle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110198046X ISBN 13: 9781101980460

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2015

Synopsis

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: that we have stopped having face-to-face conversation in favour of technological connections such as texts or emails. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools and the workplace, Turkle argues here that we now have a better understanding of this phenomenon, and that going forward, it's time we reclaim conversation, the most human thing that we do.

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Review:

"Sherry Turkle is a singular voice in the discourse around technology." --Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times

"This is her third book on the subject. Her general thesis (that human values and humane activities are threatened by our gadgets) is consistent. What changes is the focus. This time she finds that it is real face-to-face conversation that is vanishing like mist on the bright morning of Silicon Valley's ascendancy." --The Times

About the Author:

Sherry Turkle has spent the last 30 years studying the psychology of people's relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. A licensed clinical psychologist, she is the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Turkle is the author five books and three edited collections, including a trilogy of three landmark studies on our relationship with digital culture: The Second Self (MIT Press, 2005), Life on the Screen (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and most recently, Alone Together (MIT Press, 2011). A recipient of a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, she is a featured media commentator. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 110198046X
• ISBN 13: 9781101980460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464