About the Book
Quite naturally, the popular press places the ecochamber effect into the contexts of culture, sociology, politics, and media studies. It would be hard and foolish to disagree about this placement. At the heart of this volume, however, is a “hunch” that we even more profoundly live in generational echo chambers. When we are separated into cohorts by age and stage we live in these shared worlds which inevitably become their own kind of echo-chambers. We fail to actualize the potentials of intergenerational dialogue outlined in chapter three of this volume namely that living in dialogic relationship to other generations
- Allows us to picture the flow of human life including where we are, where we have been and where we are headed thus allowing transitions to occur more meaningfully and completely;
- Provides us with insight into how others have negotiated the transitions from one stage of life to the next; Gives us the gift of being accepted for who we are at any point along the life-cycle journey;
- Enjoy “vicariously” the entire range of gifts and virtues of what it means to be human;
- Know the larger story of our own intergenerational tale with the attending benefits of psychological resilience and adaptability (Marshall Duke, 2015) ;
- Relive aspects of our own Eriksonian journey that were unfinished and deserving of a “second time around” visit;
The richness, resonance, and “roundedness” of dialogue we experience in intergenerational contexts is lost here. We sacrifice our most natural, organic ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing different voices. As we noted in an earlier chapter, placing ourselves in an intergenerational space might be one of the best ways to step out of echo chambers.
About the Book
Quite naturally, the popular press places the ecochamber effect into the contexts of culture, sociology, politics, and media studies. It would be hard and foolish to disagree about this placement. At the heart of this volume, however, is a “hunch” that we even more profoundly live in generational echo chambers. When we are separated into cohorts by age and stage we live in these shared worlds which inevitably become their own kind of echo-chambers. We fail to actualize the potentials of intergenerational dialogue outlined in chapter three of this volume namely that living in dialogic relationship to other generations
The richness, resonance, and “roundedness” of dialogue we experience in intergenerational contexts is lost here. We sacrifice our most natural, organic ways of seeing, hearing, and experiencing different voices. As we noted in an earlier chapter, placing ourselves in an intergenerational space might be one of the best ways to step out of echo chambers.