Everyone's talking but no-one's listening: it's time to reclaim the art of communication

real dialogue seems to have given way to parallel monologues, paired with an inability to actively listen...
Rhetoric teaches the art of using persuasive tools... resolving disagreement through measured agreeable discussion, known as the dialectic method...
In 1922... "communication can by itself create a community". This early definition was close to the spirit of the dialectic method... in line with the root of the word “communication”, which comes from the Latin communicare (to share or to make common) and communis (belonging to all). Both terms are also related to the word “community”.
electronic communication technologies and mass media after World War II shifted the focus... Persuasion and media effects concepts moved centre stage.... for purposeful or strategic communication ... in political campaigning, marketing and public relations... by the 1980s communication in the United States had been separated from the study of speech and rhetoric
practising a slower and more compassionate communication style is to borrow ideas from the Slow Movement. We can step away from instant responses and replace the idea of conversations as a competition... community-involved and -led health campaigns, creating ownership, mutual voice and togetherness ... to find common ground when talking to each other, which is not coincidentally also a definition of the term “community”.