Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is the author of "Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution" (Basic Books, 1978; 2nd revised edition with Guilford Press, 1992); "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" (Simon and Schuster, 1984; 2nd revised edition with MIT Press, 2005); and "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" (Simon and Schuster, November 1995). Currently, Professor Turkle is completing a book on robots and the human spirit and editing a three volume collection on the relationship between things and thinking.
Professor Turkle is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20.
Comment: Jeremy Bailenson
This talk is part of Stanford's Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society.