Empathy Machines

"Empathy Machines explores the history of radio and podcasts's impact on the affective landscape of the US (and beyond) over the last generation. Drawing on the seemingly oxymoronic term, "empathy machines," with its paired connotations of human and inhuman, warmth and cold, affective and rational, the book examines the besetting contradiction at the heart of liberalism's balancing act of communitarian and individualist ideals"-- Provided by publisher.