MCFR Spring 2017

Reclaiming Face-to-Face Talk in a Digital World

Some (Inconvenient) Truths

Carol Bruess (rhymes with “peace”), Ph.D.

Professor, Communication & Journalism

Director, Family Studies

(& lover of technology, especially i-things and emoji) #truestory #emjoiqueen

I. WHAT WHAT IS GOING ON?

II. HOW HOW CAN WE RECLAIM FTF

CONNECTION?

Reclaiming Face-to-Face Talk in a Digital World

Some (Inconvenient) Truths

Carol Bruess (rhymes with “peace”), Ph.D.

Professor, Communication & Journalism

Director, Family Studies

(& lover of technology, especially i-things and emoji)

#truestory #emjoiqueen

SEDUCTIVE UNDERTOW – Sherry Turkle, Ph.D., @ MIT

“We rarely give each other our full attention anymore.”

Tech and human interaction?

The “GAME CHANGER” book

Life in the always-on environment:

Is it “addiction?”

50%

“Can’t live”

6.5 minutes5 minutes of waking

100 texts per day

150!

“TECHNOFERENCE”

“TECHNOFERENCE”Lower life satisfaction Lower relationship satisfaction More depression

TECHNOGRAM (The Technology-Focused

Genogram) Blumer & Hertlein, 2016

90%

“What do you think it did to the conversation?”

82%

FUNERALS“BORING BITS”

DINNER TABLE“Rule of Three”

TABLE DISCUSSIONTHREE QUESTIONS

Strategies list (Q#3):What did you come up with?

EMAPTHY 40%

MIT’s Dr. Sherry Turkle on NPR’s FRESH AIR

Turkle on NPR’s ON BEING

TECH AS ADDICTION?

SHOCK YOURSELF

7 minutes (#zap!)

Family Narratives Lab, Emory University

(Fivush, Duke et al)

ONE MORE TABLE DISCUSSION!

THREE FINAL QUESTIONS