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Reclaiming Conversation
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age | Sherry Turkle
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.
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StaceGhost
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Enjoying the tagged library ebook at work when I realized I could fit my ereader in the pocket of my dress, which made me realize I will be wearing this dress forever now.

An excellent book, this was a part of my teaching transformative texts reading list. I‘m so grateful I have this opportunity to learn about this program. So far it‘s been wonderful, both the book and the course!

Clare-Dragonfly That is an excellent dress! 5mo
StaceGhost @Clare-Dragonfly thank you! I require dresses with large pockets and this is why! 5mo
Crazeedi Pockets in everything are a must!! 5mo
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curiouserandcurioser @StaceGhost my daughter's wedding dress has pockets:) 5mo
StaceGhost @curiouserandcurioser ooooo! I love that! Perfect for those interminable photo shoots lol 5mo
StaceGhost @Crazeedi I agree! I‘m tempted to cut a place for pockets in all my clothes without them 5mo
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DivineDiana
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I subscribe to a multitude of book centered newsletters,and as a result I make purchases. When the book arrives, I often have no recollection who or what encouraged me to believe that I must read this book! I need to keep a journal for these mysterious books that float into my life…or not. Here is the latest to arrive. #bookmail

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CogsOfEncouragement
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I read this for a local bookstore book club which I am looking forward to in a couple days. I‘m Gen X, so a lot of this are points I have already been mindful of. What surprised me though is how different the dating experience is from my time. I realize that what I learned will help me empathize with what my kids are/will be going through.

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CogsOfEncouragement
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Reading this for a bookstore book club and getting a lot out of it. What surprises me the most so far is how different the dating experience is from my time. I realize that what I am reading now will help me empathize with what my kids are/will be going through.

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CogsOfEncouragement
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Starting this today for a book club at a local bookstore which I‘m pretty excited about.

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CogsOfEncouragement
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Went to my local bookstore today to purchase books for their upcoming book club meetings. I loved their cross-stitch.

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Schwifty
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This is the "sequel" to Turkle's previous book, Alone Together. She again provides more evidence for the argument that technology and phones specifically act as distraction machines, disrupting human attention, presence and conversation, increasingly preventing young people in particular from learning how to empathize. Technology leaves us feeling lonely yet afraid of intimacy; it leads us to expect more from machines and less from each other.

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CatchMyBookBreath
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#Libraryhaul! My husband does not like participate in social media much. I say I have met some of the kindest kindred spirits online but I wouldn't recognize them if I ran them over with a shopping cart. I am hoping this book has some good insights!

He did, however, find this glam sign for me and he arraigned my username on it!

What say you- other than on litsy, are you in social media?

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Iceangel9
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Everyone needs to read this book!!

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Iceangel9
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Really makes you think! Love this book!

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Iceangel9
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My best #24in48 ever! #24in48readathon 🎉🍸💕

GAustin Well done! 7y
Eyelit 👏👏👏 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job! 👏🏻👏🏻📚📚🎉🎉 7y
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rachellayown
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Today I got pretty far in the tagged book (which is what I'm listening to on audio right now) thanks to a country drive to pick up my CSA. The book is a startling look at what we're losing by constantly being plugged in and relying on texts, emails, and social media over conversation. It doesn't have the best narrator, but the topic has me completely hooked.

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AlexGeorge
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See that pen? That pen is going to run out of ink soon, so enthusiastically am I underlining stuff. We have four kids, all of whom love their screens to a greater or lesser degree, and OH MY GOD.

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AlexGeorge
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Desert reading list #2. I wait to read this and then drive everyone in my family crazy.

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LectricSheep
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I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts about books! Do you have any recommendations? The ones in the photo are the 4 I currently listen to. I started some Professional Book Nerd episodes, but I haven't gotten hooked yet. I prefer people talking about books and reading to people talking with writers about their own work.

Redwritinghood I don't really listen to that many podcasts. I listen to All the Books. I might check out the others on your list. 8y
LectricSheep @Redwritinghood I especially recommend What Should I Read Next. The host (who has the most soothing voice, btw) listens to guests (who are often just normal people who like to read) talk about their recent favorites and then recommends three books based on what she thinks their preferences are! It's a lot of fun. 8y
Notafraidofwords Overdue Podcast is fun. 8y
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LeahBergen Oh, I need to check out What Should I Read Next ! 👍🏼 8y
LectricSheep @Notafraidofwords I remember looking at that one and being intimidated by the 2.5 hour episode on Infinite Jest! 😅I should try it though. Do you have a favorite episode? 8y
Notafraidofwords @LectricSheep they had a great discussion on Eleanor & Park. Some are longer than others. For some reason, I like them. They add lots of humor to literature. 8y
LectricSheep @Notafraidofwords Awesome! I will check it out. Thanks! 8y
8little_paws I enjoy the slate audio book club 8y
Keyoung I ❤️️ Storyological. They usually discuss two short stories per episode and both hosts are insightful and lovely. 8y
LectricSheep @8little_paws I've never heard of it! I'll have to check it out. Thanks! @Keyoung I just looked that one up, and the titles are amazing. "WHAT'S HIS NAME PHYSICS MAN." ? 8y
badnorthern I listen to the New Yorker Fiction podcast and the Author's Voice. Love those! 8y
Nonaroo Dear Book Nerd is a fun podcast. The Guardian Books podcast is good and I also like the BBC World Book Club . 8y
LectricSheep @Nonaroo I really should listen to Dear Book Nerd. Good call. I'll have to check out the others too! Thanks @badnorthern -- maybe I should try listening to writers read their work more! I tried Modern Love and just got kind of bored, so I assumed the genre wasn't for me. 8y
Erynecki I like Book_Podcast 8y
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Angeles
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For me this book did not work. The premise is not bad, and she has some good arguments but it is all in the tone of : Oh, the awful times, back in my day when we actually Talked to each other... I do not believe conversation was thriving as an art form in 1950 s in the USA or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. Thoughtful, meaningful discussion of ideas or real feelings has always been rare. The author did not convinced me otherwise

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GoneFishing

We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.

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Darthdad
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Stopped by the library on the way home from work. I saw this on their recommended reading shelf. Seemed relevant enough to check it out

MrBook Nice! Excellent choice 😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. 8y
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MaryLew
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Currently reading this. It's dragging a bit in the second half but I'm determined to finish it!

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lindseycornett
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"Our mobile devices seem to grant three wishes, as though gifts from a benevolent genie: first, that we will always be heard; second, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and third, that we will never have to be alone."

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