“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.” YearsBookAgePastTechnologyStudentsCollegeConversationEmpathyPercentArguingVulnerableDigitalDeclineDigital AgeCollege StudentsMarkers Author:Judy Woodruff
“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.” PeopleFeelsTwoMatterShowsAttentionAmountConversationEmpathyResearchPhonesTwo ThingsElsewhereSignalsDecrease Author:Judy Woodruff
“Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.” NeedsHumansMeanPlayTogetherBornNaturalConversationEmpathyPhonesVulnerableIntimacyNervousness Author:Judy Woodruff
“In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.” SaidLastsSocialStudyConversationPercentPhonesEncountersInterrupted Author:Judy Woodruff
“If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.” PeopleIfsWayHomeCareSpaceRoomsSilenceTechnologyCarConversationSacredOur FamilyKitchenDiningDining RoomsSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.” PeopleConversationIncreaseProductivityInterviewsPilotsHeadphonesCockpit Author:Judy Woodruff
