reclaiming face-to-face talk in a digital world
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MCFR Spring 2017
Reclaiming Face-to-Face Talk in a Digital World
Some (Inconvenient) Truths
Carol Bruess (rhymes with “peace”), Ph.D.
Professor, Communication & Journalism
Director, Family Studies
(& lover of technology, especially i-things and emoji) #truestory #emjoiqueen
I. WHAT WHAT IS GOING ON?
II. HOW HOW CAN WE RECLAIM FTF
CONNECTION?
Reclaiming Face-to-Face Talk in a Digital World
Some (Inconvenient) Truths
Carol Bruess (rhymes with “peace”), Ph.D.
Professor, Communication & Journalism
Director, Family Studies
(& lover of technology, especially i-things and emoji)
#truestory #emjoiqueen
SEDUCTIVE UNDERTOW – Sherry Turkle, Ph.D., @ MIT
“We rarely give each other our full attention anymore.”
Tech and human interaction?
The “GAME CHANGER” book
Life in the always-on environment:
Is it “addiction?”
50%
“Can’t live”
6.5 minutes5 minutes of waking
100 texts per day
150!
“TECHNOFERENCE”
“TECHNOFERENCE”Lower life satisfaction Lower relationship satisfaction More depression
TECHNOGRAM (The Technology-Focused
Genogram) Blumer & Hertlein, 2016
90%
“What do you think it did to the conversation?”
82%
FUNERALS“BORING BITS”
DINNER TABLE“Rule of Three”
TABLE DISCUSSIONTHREE QUESTIONS
Strategies list (Q#3):What did you come up with?
EMAPTHY 40%
MIT’s Dr. Sherry Turkle on NPR’s FRESH AIR
Turkle on NPR’s ON BEING
TECH AS ADDICTION?
SHOCK YOURSELF
7 minutes (#zap!)
Family Narratives Lab, Emory University
(Fivush, Duke et al)
ONE MORE TABLE DISCUSSION!
THREE FINAL QUESTIONS