Publication year 2015
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Friendship, Family, Science & Technology, Education, Language
Tags Psychology, Technology, Relationships, Parenting, Science & Nature, Sociology, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Arts & Culture
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (2015) is a non-fiction work by Sherry Turkle. A clinical psychologist and professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, Turkle specializes in human-technology interaction and has decades of experience writing on technology’s problematic effects on human connection. In Reclaiming Conversation, the book’s premise is in the title: Turkle believes that technology has detrimentally taken over human conversation and that we ought to... Read Reclaiming Conversation Summary