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Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World
On the Phone
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2020
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0527-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0528-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
279
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 On the Phone No access Pages 23 - 44
2 Our Digital Age of Distraction and Our Increasing Techno-Social Dilemma No access Pages 45 - 66
3 Enchantments and Their Inauthenticity No access Pages 67 - 96
4 Echoes of the Acousmatic Voice in Cyberspace No access Pages 97 - 118
5 The Murder of the Phone in Plain Sight No access Pages 119 - 154
6 The Enchanting Phone as Phenomenological Event No access Pages 155 - 186
7 The Pivotal Nature of Voice No access Pages 187 - 220
8 Resonance, Resilience, and Re-Enchantment No access Pages 221 - 250
