“Reclaiming conversations, that’s the next frontier.” — Sherry Turkle‘s [1] concluding line to her TEDxUIUC 2011 presentation Alone Together.
This morning David O’Hara’s Can I Ask Questions In Church? [2] spurred me to read Jaweed Kaleem’s Keeping Alive The Big Questions [3]. In Kaleem’s resource rich article I once again came across Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. As you may remember from the Emerging Scholars Network Facebook Wall, I posted her TED2012 presentation Connected, but alone? and the below video (Innovation of Loneliness) inspired by her book Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other (2012). [Read more…] about Reclaiming Conversations?