No Need To Call By Sherry Turgle Summary

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

In her article “No Need to Call” Sherry Turkle says even though she uses technology to text her daughter and to communicate with other people she still thinks it's getting out of control. She opens the article by telling a story on Elaine, a 17 year old, who attends Roosevelt high school, who says that people hate talking on the phone. Sherry Turkle teaches in the program in science, technology, and society at MIT. She believes that Society will have reached a point to where phone calls are fearful. She explains that people are fearsome for calls because calls take all their attention and that no one has that much time. Turkle gives us an example by telling us a story of Tara, a 55 year old lawyer, who doesn't has time to call her friends so

Article “OMG! We've been here B4!” by Clive Thompson is a reflection of what the effects the telephone has on everyday communication as well as the development of the telephone over the years. Thompson however explains that the early days of the telephone weren't seen as a helpful tool for social interaction, but an abate to conversation. When the cell phone first emerged on scene, it was believed that people choose to communicate face-to-face less and call instead. Clive Thompson explores the thought that texting may make people shield their emotions, limit conversations to only the phone, and erode intimacy. Although the telephone had various opinions, the cell phone did not destroy traditional etiquette but altered the way we communicate with one another.

The author and esteemed Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sherry Turkle, in the essay, “The Flight from Conversation,” published in the New York Times on April 22, 2012 addresses the topic of conversation versus connection. It argues that technology is interfering with the ability to communicate. Turkle supports her claim first by using ethos to establish her credibility, second by using logos to provide her logic, and finally pathos to relate and move the reader. Turkle establishes a sentimental tone in order to appeal to her audience’s emotions on the topic. The author’s overall purpose is to persuade her audience to be together and to interact in person so that they will

“No Need to Call” by Sherry Turkle is an article written about the relationship people have with technology, and specifically with communicating via technology. How it has affected the way we want to interact with people, or how we end up interacting with people. This being due to social norms having changed when it comes to our way of interacting, such as the meaning behind making phone calls rather than texting. The article itself brings up many viewpoints as well as different opinions on the subject, plus a few pros and cons to show that certain things are not always to be seen as black and white. Technology has its advantages, but even the most tech savvy, devoted people have to admit that it has its disadvantages, brought up in this article. Examples are brought up with each point to

For instance, after a student has told her that they would rather talk to a screen then their own parents about dating advice, she states, “this enthusiasm speaks to how much we have confused conversation with connection and collectively seem to have embraced a new kind of delusion that accepts the stimulation of compassion,” (138). She uses reasoning from her own studies explaining how technology has affected our attitudes and mentality toward certain factors. For example, a high schooler wants to talk to an artificial intelligence program about dating advice rather than another person, such as a parent or sibling because they feel as if they can only trust a computer screen more than their family. In another instance, Turkle incorporates reasoning into why technology has become a big factor in our everyday lives. She states, “In the silence of connection, people are comforted by being in touch with a lot of people. We can’t get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right,” (137). Here, Turkle reasons that technology is a favorable option to many, in for instance, having a conversation, because one has control of what they are saying, how they are saying it, and when they are saying it. All with the benefit of editing. Turkle says that one would rather be

Yet again she is right on point. I feel that this merges into her chapter Absent without leave. People get so focused on this cell phone screen that they are like a zombie, not mentally just physically, they are lost in a cell phone screen. Rosen, (2001) Within the essay, Disconnected Urbanism, Paul Goldberger adds to this idea, he states “there in body but not it any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if your holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha”. Goldeberger, (2003) I feel that this line pulled from his essay wraps up a message same as Christine Rosen. This issues have only gotten worse since technology is much more advanced from when these essays were written. People all over the world are simply living in a digital world and the young generation is losing valuable personal communication

Calling someone is now a sacred ritual. Unless it is a business call or an emergency, people now veer towards text messaging. It is a quick and easy alternative that does not interrupt someone’s day or force them into conversation. Sherry Turkle and Jenna Wortham discuss this issue in their respective essays. While Turkle believes that this is because the current generation is one of distance, Wortham believes that it is a matter of maturity. I believe that Turkle’s approach to this argument is more effective because she provides more evidence.

In the article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.”, Sherry Turkle claims that technology is leaving us vulnerable to the world. Cell phones along with other technology can be detrimental in certain situations. She bases her claim off of several experiments done with all ages of kids and technology. The article, written in 2015 and published in the Sunday Review, targets how the conversations today are becoming shallow because the world attached to their phones. Even though Turkle’s argument that conversations are dying and are shallow, her article shows evidence that conversations are different when phones are in sight. She offers vital information and evidence about scenarios where conversations are changed because of the use technology. She provides statements and facts that are true to our everyday lives especially our lives with technology.

In the twenty-first century, technology has taken off. Today, we live in a world surrounded by technology all around, one of the most prevalent in society today- the cellphone. In the article written by Sherry Turkle, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk”, she poses the question, “What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk?” (p 1). The author is stating that many people today would rather use cellphones instead of having direct conversation. Turkle connects cellphones and how they affect our daily lives throughout the article with the use of statistical evidence, inclusion nouns, and interview experiments. She presents her argument in a

Can you imagine life without your cell phone? Does the thought give you anxiety? These days, technology plays a huge role in our everyday lives. You can do just about anything on the web and a smart phone provides instant access. In her article “Growing up Tethered,” author and founder of MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self Sherry Turkle discusses the attachments people have with their cell phones, the web, social media, and technology all together. Turkle speaks with numerous high school students about the relationship they have with their phone and the issues that arise from being tethered to it. We learn that communicating through mobile devices and the web takes the personal emotion out of the conversation, and real life interactions

In order to support her claim, Turkle uses examples from real people to describe how their interactions and behaviors are changing as a result of texting and emailing. The first girl that Turkle interviewed, Audrey, talked about the power texting gives her compared to phone calls stating, “In texting, you can get your main points off; you can really control when you want the conversation to start and end. You say, ‘Got to go, bye.’ You just do it” (378-379). People prefer are starting to prefer texting over phone calls because they feel they

Consequently, people who text a lot may be more uncomfortable with in-person communication.” Taking this information into account, it becomes clear that cell phones have essentially decreased face-to-face socialization and have socially affected those who use cell phones as a main source of communication. Along with the absence of face-to-face social interaction, arises the issue of resolving problems via text rather than in person. Cell phones have provided a way to hide behind technology from emotionally distressing events, such as ending relationships (Campbell, 2005).

She gives an example which is Hope who has a Blackberry. Hope gets annoyed by her husband long phone calls and has been trying to convince him to text her instead. However, Turkle mentions that people sometimes are afraid to call even though they have important things to say. For example, Tara who did know about her friend’s sister death until she met her face-to-face is from the older generation. “Tara thinks that if she had called her instead of emailing her, she would have known that her friend’s sister had died”(384). However, an opposite example from the younger generation is Meredith who knew about her friend’s by instant message, and she says that she “…Had been glad that she did not have to see or speak to anyone”(384). Finally, Turkle makes her last point which is people are taking out voices from their lives via technology. She starts with an example of a story that happened to Turkle and her colleague Joyce. Her colleague Joyce thought that a phone call to congratulate Turkle would be “intrusive”(386). Also, Turkle did not call Joyce, but emailed her instead for the same reason. However, Turkle argues that phones have taken over the face-to-face conversations. She finally gives an example of

Everywhere I look, I see a person grasping onto their phone. Leaving the house in the morning with a cell phone has become as important as eating breakfast. The article, Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted to Their Smartphones, written by Kelly Wallace describes the feelings of teens and adults towards their cell phones. “Two-thirds of parents -- 66% -- feel their teens spend too much time on their mobile devices” (Wallace). Unfortunately, these teens would prefer to communicate through a screen rather than face-to-face.