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A timely wake-up call urging us to cherish the intimacy of direct, unscripted communication.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sherry-turkle/reclaiming-conversation/

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The book combines Turkle’s research from the past five years—interviews and anecdotes from children, teenagers, college students, parents, educators and managers—with her own insights from her background in psychology. Together, the stories she presents offer a snapshot of people grappling with the social consequences of changing communication technology.
- Lauren Cassani Davis
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/reclaiming-conversation-sherry-turkle/409273/

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Turkle's latest book, "Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age," is a passionate argument to re-examine how we use technology — and how it influences our relationships. Persuasive and conversational, "Reclaiming Conversation" looks broadly at how our new, increasingly connected way of living has changed us.
-Hope Reese
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-reclaiming-conversation-sherry-turkle-20151008-story.html

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Turkle, who has been covering the impact of digital communications on human development for decades, takes too long a view to focus her analysis solely on kids: grown-ups are where these kids are learning this behaviour. Turkle's study finds frustrated kids who can't get their parents' full attention, even over scheduled personal dinners. Those same parents multitask (ineffectively) in meetings, distracting both themselves and everyone around them.
- Wendy M. Grossman
https://www.zdnet.com/article/reclaiming-conversation-book-review-time-to-talk/

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“Reclaiming Conversation” highlights smartphones, but the book is a broad indictment of our communication culture. Much of the book’s contents — which include digital distraction in which include digital distraction in classrooms and family dining rooms, unproductive yet pervasive multitasking, the confusion between clicking “like” on Facebook and actual political engagement — have been covered by other writers. Turkle is rare, however, in both synthesizing these various critiques and positing the necessity of conversation as the most effective, human response to our contemporary digital siege state.
- Michael Washburn
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/10/10/book-review-reclaiming-conversation-the-power-talk-digital-age-sherry-turkle/muXgP1rWCf5JIWNettgZDM/story.html

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“Reclaiming Conversation” is best appreciated as a sophisticated self-help book. It makes a compelling case that children develop better, students learn better and employees perform better when their mentors set good examples and carve out spaces for face-to-face interactions.
- Jonathan Franzen
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/jonathan-franzen-reviews-sherry-turkle-reclaiming-conversation.html

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“This is a persuasive and intimate book, one that explores the minutiae of human relationships.”
- Carlos Lozada
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/10/01/the-book-that-will-have-everyone-talking-about-how-we-never-talk-anymore/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7e3dd25eebf0

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A clinical psychologist and sociologist who teaches at MIT, Turkle is by no means antitechnology. But after a career examining relations between people and computers, she blends her description with advocacy. She presents a powerful case that a new communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships—with family and friends, as well as colleagues and romantic partners.
- Jacob Weisberg
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/we-are-hopelessly-hooked/

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In Sherry Turkle's Reclaiming Conversation, her important new book on the often adverse effects of technology on society, empathy plays a repeated and crucial role. The ability to develop and converse about sophisticated thoughts on complex subjects, and to appreciate the reactions of others through face-to-face encounters are, in Turkle's mind, compromised by society's increasing reliance on smartphones and other portable technologies.
- Christopher Hartman
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/1202/Reclaiming-Conversation-what-we-lose-when-we-re-always-online

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This is one of the best books I have read in a very long time.  Essential reading for any parent, for anyone who interacts with digital technologies, social media, smartphones, indeed for anyone living in the complex world of 2017.
- Rob Hopkins
https://www.robhopkins.net/2017/04/17/book-review-reclaiming-conversation-the-power-of-talk-in-a-digital-age-by-sherry-turkle/

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Sherry Turkle counters our passions for technology and makes the case for face-to-face conversation, believing that conversation is the cornerstone for empathy as well as democracy.
- Dave Lehman
https://www.nsrfharmony.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Book-review1.pdf

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Drawing from interviews, observations, and case studies that illustrate the consequences of our online lives, Reclaiming Conversation illustrates the sometimes-harmful effects of our over-reliance on digital connections, making a compelling and passionate argument for face-to-face interaction.

- Hope Reese
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-our-attachment-to-tech-is-downgrading-our-conversations-a-word-with-sherry-turkle/

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Sherry Turkle – one of the foremost experts on the impact of technology on culture and psychology – argues persuasively that technology should augment your life, not control it. Conversation and human connection, she maintains, have deteriorated. We lose our human skills.
https://www.getabstract.com/.../reclaiming-conversation/25582