Reclaiming Conversation - Sherry Turkle Paperback

Updated August 25, 2026

Condition: Used Damaged?: No Missing Parts?: No UPC: 9780143109792 Brand: Penguin Publishing Group Title: Reclaiming Conversation - Sherry Turkle Paperback About the Book Argues that today's digital culture is undermining relationships, creativity, and productivity, and pushes for the return of face-to-face interaction among people. Book Synopsis 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 words: 'We are forever elsewhere.'" --Jonathan Haidt, bestselling author of The Anxious Generation A prescient bestseller a decade ago, and essential today--with new insight into the threats of generative AI. Sherry Turkle, long an enthusiast for the promise of digital technology, now investigates its troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. At the dinner table, children compete with phones for their parents' attention. At work, we retreat to our screens and home offices, forgoing the water-cooler conversation that once made us more productive and engaged. Online, we post opinions that our friends will agree with, avoiding the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. When we turn to our devices instead of to one another, the cost is our own humanity. But there is good news: conversation cures. Face-to-face dialogue builds empathy, friendship, and creativity; it's the cornerstone of democracy and good for the bottom line. Drawing on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle makes the paradigm-shifting case for conversation. Review Quotes "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

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