The De-Voicing of Society; Why We Don't Talk To Each Other Anymore by John Locke.
What John Locke sees is a lack of conversation of the old-fashioned type: face-to-face chat among friends, relatives, and neighbors. It is no small thing to Locke that most of our communication is concerned with transmitting information to people we cannot see. He holds, in fact, that transmitting information, as we presently think about it, is only the secondary purpose of communication. Conversation is a vital component in building enduring and worthwhile societies. This is why most of the conversation that bonds human beings involves no real exchange of hard information at all. But the present lack of bonding communications, Lock insists, is not just a problem of our modern, technology-based society. The foundations were set with both urbanization and the creation of the printing press, which for the first time allowed large-scale communication between people who never met. Cybertechnology has just thrown the process into high gear.
The book analyzes several modern phenomena to make his point.
Hardcover. 1998.
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