- Published: 28 November 2016
- ISBN: 9780143109792
- Imprint: Sentinel
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $29.99
Reclaiming Conversation














- Published: 28 November 2016
- ISBN: 9780143109792
- Imprint: Sentinel
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $29.99
Turkle is by no means antitechnology. But after a career examining relations between people and computers, she blends her description with advocacy. She presents a powerful case that a new communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review of Books
Turkle deftly explores and explains the good and bad of this ‘flight from conversation’ while encouraging parents, teachers and bosses to champion conversation, use technology more intentionally and serve as role models
Success, A Best Book of 2015
Reclaiming Conversation reminds readers what’s at stake when devices win over face-to-face conversation, and that it’s not too late to conquer those bad habits
Seattle Times
Turkle’s witty, well-written book offers much to ponder . . . This is the season of polls and sound bites, of Facebook updates extolling the perceived virtues or revealing the assumed villainy of opinions. Talk is cheap, but conversation is priceless
Boston Globe
Drawing from hundreds of interviews, [Turkle] makes a convincing case that our unfettered ability to make digital connections is leading to a decline in actual conversation—between friends and between lovers, in classrooms and in places of work, even in the public sphere. In having fewer meaningful conversations each day, Turkle argues, we’re losing the skills that made them possible to begin with—the ability to focus deeply, think things through, read emotions, and empathize with others
The American Scholar