Recovering the voice in our techno-social world : on the phone /

This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a devoiced society through our preferences for hypertextual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within imm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eicher-Catt, Deborah, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
Subjects:	Oral communication > Philosophy. Interpersonal communication. Conversation. Listening. Voice. Telephone calls. Information technology > Social aspects.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Speaking and Listening from the Heart
On the Phone
Our Digital Age of Distraction and our Increasing Techno-Social Dilemma
Enchantments and Their Inauthenticity: The Play of Amusements
Echoes of the Acousmatic Voice in Cyberspace: The Impersonal Self
The Murder of the Phone in Plain Sight: The Voice of Articulation
The Enchanting Phone as Phenomenological Event: The Voice of Enunciation
The Pivotal Nature of Voice: Interper-sónal Relationality and its Authenticity
Resonance, Resilience, and Re-Enchantment: Voicing the Heart of the Matter.