Technology And Communication In No Need To Call By Sherry Turkle

What does our future look like? With all the use of new technology there are new theories arising that predict whether or not it is going to destroy our personal connections with others, or the theories that say the new technology is going to build relationships and cause the personal connections with others to become stronger and more reliable. Looking at two articles with the same broad topic it will be interesting to see what each of the authors have to say. The first article, No Need to Call by Sherry Turkle, gives the reader an idea of how technology will negatively impact our futures, and cause us to become nothing but words on a screen. The next article, I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the App. by Jenna Wortham, shows readers

In the article she said “this incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotion” (Turkle 388). This quote depicts how Turkle feels about talking face-to-face, she believes it is necessary and is something that is important to do. Not only are our voices an instrument that we were given to use to express ourselves, but they give us a sense of tone and texture that oneself is talking in. Our voices are a sign of body language, giving the person who we are talking to a sense of how one feels, angry, sad, happy, or excited; these are just some examples of how we need that face-to-face communication Turkle talks about. Throughout Turkle’s article she discusses how people use technology as an escape from awkward situations, and how people don’t want to talk on the phone anymore. Turkle sees these changes happening around her with her daughter, her brother, and she even sees herself at some points falling into the trap of using

This is in contrast to Turkle who talks about how it is ruining our communication skills, Wortham states that technology is doing just the opposite and bettering our connections with others. Wortham, even though her article is a bit shorter than Turkle’s, still is able to get across the idea that without the technology that we have today she wouldn’t be able to have the relationship she has with her boyfriend. This goes for everyone who is in a long distance relationship, or those who are far away from their families. The use of video chats, texting, and calling improves communication for those who we can’t see on a daily basis. Wortham believes that without these options of technology she would not still be in the relationship with her current boyfriend, or if she was in the relationship still they would not be as close as they are with the use of the video chat dates they have. As it says in her article “we chatted…before bidding each other good night.” (Wortham 393). This may seem like a common thing for couples to do but “we did all of this despite living more than 3,000 miles apart” (Wortham 393). They were only able to do such a task do “to smartphone applications and services” (Wortham 393). As one could see Wortham is for the use of technology, and communication over electronic