Conversation and Technology: From the Telephone to the Internet

by Ian Hutchby

We live in a world where social interaction is increasingly mediated by technological devices. In this book, Ian Hutchby explores the impact these technologies have on our attempts to communicate. Focusing on four examples - telephones, computerized expert systems at work, speech-based systems dealing with enquiries from the public, and multi-user spaces on the Internet - Hutchby asks: are we increasingly technologized conversationalists, or is technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745621112
• ISBN13: 9780745621111
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"