CREATIVE CULTURE
Aug 31, 2020
3 minutes
Edited by Judith Gray
TURNING DOWN THE NOISE
by Christine Jackman B&W, 320 pages Murdoch Books $32.99 inc GST
Christine Jackman began her career as a journalist with The Courier-Mail in Brisbane in 1993. She has worked in New York as a foreign correspondent, in the Canberra press gallery, and as the social issues writer for The Australian. Clearly Christine knows the pressure that a successful career can build in a life. It can be very noisy.
This book is about a quest for afollows Christine’s journey as she explores what is happening to our brains, our lives and our communities as we navigate a never-ending assault on our senses and attention, whether from actual noise, exposure to media or the pings and alerts on our phones.
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