Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World

On the Phone

AvDeborah Eicher-Catt

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Using a communicological perspective, Recovering the Voice in our Techno-Social World: On the Phone identifies voice (phone in Greek) as the essential medium for a re-enchantment of human communication in our highly impersonal techno-social environment. This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society because of our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. Ironically, while we are increasingly “on the phone,” we are sacrificing our vocality within immediate ear-to-ear relations. Framed by the trope of enchantment, Deborah Eicher-Catt argues that the immediacy of the sounding voice calls us and enchants us to make possible productive moments of resonance in which we might cultivate an interpersonal resilience in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated environment. Scholars of media studies, communication, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-08
Mått:154 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793605290

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Deborah Eicher-Catt is professor of communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University, York.

Recensioner i media

Eicher-Catt’s book is an excellent contribution to studies in communication, communicology, semiotic phenomenology, media ecology, sociology, and a brilliant academic resource for students and scholars. Readers will not only be immersed in a deep intellectual journey, but also an enchanting one.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction – Speaking and Listening from the HeartChapter 1 – On the PhoneChapter 2 – Our Digital Age of Distraction and our Increasing Techno-Social DilemmaChapter 3 – Enchantments and Their Inauthenticity: The Play of AmusementsChapter 4 – Echoes of the Acousmatic Voice in Cyberspace: The Impersonal SelfChapter 5 – The Murder of the Phone in Plain Sight: The Voice of ArticulationChapter 6 – The Enchanting Phone as Phenomenological Event: The Voice of EnunciationChapter 7 – The Pivotal Nature of Voice: Interper-sónal Relationality and its AuthenticityChapter 8 – Resonance, Resilience, and Re-Enchantment: Voicing the Heart of the MatterBibliographyAbout the Author