Zócalo Public Square

At the sixth annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 2016 winner Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, talked with Zócalo Publisher Gregory Rodriguez about how digital connection is undermining our capacity to be alone, our sense of self, our empathy, and even our ability to love. The Zócalo Book Prize is awarded to the nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine human connectedness.