Reclaiming Conversation The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Sherry Turkle, Kirsten Potter

eAudio - 2015

The 10th anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author“A persuasive and intimate book . . . showing how, phones in hand, we turn away from our children, friends, and coworkers, even from ourselves.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“[Turkle] presents a powerful case that a new communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships.” —The New York Review of Books“Neil Postman was the greatest media analyst of the late 20th century . . . I often wish that Postman was here with us today as the pace of change and concerns about harms increase rapidly. But we do have a Neil Postman, and her name is Sherry Turkle . . . Reclaiming Conversation was a landmark work of media scholarship . . . Sherry gives us ...the most powerful summation of how smartphones and social media, these powerful technologies of connection, have damaged close human relationships. She does it in four... more