analytical summary recreating conversation

Jacob wood
Professor H.
AWR 101
25 September 2018
The Power of Conversation
In Recreating Conversation (2016), author Sherry Turkle takes a different viewpoint on technology and talks about the significant effect it has on all people; young and old in their everyday life. In this book, Turkle is targeting on something that has been in front of people for so long yet few have been able to see. She takes her main point of view and branches out to a lot of different directions before coming back to one main focus. Conversation. After lots of researches and interviews, she can infer that people are losing the ability to have face-to-face conversations which ultimately revamps everything about how humans interact with each other. In Recreating Conversation, the author argues that technology is changing everyone’s life and recommends positive adaptations since it is not entirely bad.
After conducting her research, she analyzes the vital impact cell phones have on a day-to-day life. Technology and phone usage have a significant upshot to all people nowadays, and it cannot be avoided, but Turkle focuses on the substantial effect it has on kids nowadays. “You know kids are mean. And it’s because they’re trying it out. When they write “you’re fat,” they just go “That was fun. I like that.”” (Turkle 59). The book emphasizes the difference between being rude to someone in person and being rude to someone through a screen. Turkle points out that when kids a…