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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Eicher-Catt is professor of communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University, York. Klappentext This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society through our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within immediate ear-to-ear relations. Zusammenfassung This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society through our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within immediate ear-to-ear relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Speaking and Listening from the Heart Chapter 1 - On the Phone Chapter 2 - Our Digital Age of Distraction and our Increasing Techno-Social Dilemma Chapter 3 - Enchantments and Their Inauthenticity: The Play of Amusements Chapter 4 - Echoes of the Acousmatic Voice in Cyberspace: The Impersonal Self Chapter 5 - The Murder of the Phone in Plain Sight: The Voice of Articulation Chapter 6 - The Enchanting Phone as Phenomenological Event: The Voice of Enunciation Chapter 7 - The Pivotal Nature of Voice: Interper-sónal Relationality and its Authenticity Chapter 8 - Resonance, Resilience, and Re-Enchantment: Voicing the Heart of the Matter Bibliography About the Author
