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 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.

Deborah Eicher-Catt is professor of communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University, York.