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Theme : conversations
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de Tocqueville, de Schmocqueville - conversation's not declining
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote of the 'strange unsociability and reserved and taciturn disposition of the English'. There's an article in this week's Economist looking at conversation in history that makes for interesting reading.
from : samjones
20th December 2006
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Talk Us Into It
Our recent publication, Talk Us Into It, has been covered today in the Times. It argues that we need to put conversation back into the public realm. New technologies and communicaitons platforms have encouraged more and more people to 'have their say' and given more and more of us the chance to put forth our opinion, but is this at the expense of the face-to-face conversations that we need?
from : samjones
19th September 2006
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Speaking of which...
While in the US researching Cultural Diplomacy, I came across some very interesting parallels to the types of conversation that we examine in 'Talk us into it', some of which make use of cultural diplay and performance as a binding force.
from : samjones
21st July 2006
