American social scientist and psychologist (born 1948)
Sherry Turkle
Turkle in 2009
Born
(1948-06-18) June 18, 1948 (age 75)[1]
New York City, New York, U.S.[1]
Education
PhD in sociology and personality psychology
BA in social studies
Alma mater
Harvard University
Known for
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Notable work
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit,[2]Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Spouses
Seymour Papert
(m. 1977; div. 1985)
Ralph Willard
(m. 1987; div. 1998)
Website
sherryturkle.com
Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is an American sociologist. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in social studies and later a PhD in sociology and personality psychology at Harvard University. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects. Her memoir 'Empathy Diaries' received excellent critical reviews.[3]
^ abHenderson, Harry. Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. 2009. p. 482.
^Turkle, Sherry. MIT Profile
^Garner, Dwight (2021-03-01). "'The Empathy Diaries' Is a Beautiful Memoir About the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Senses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
SherryTurkle (born June 18, 1948) is an American sociologist. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology...
book Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet, author SherryTurkle uses the pattern Birdo uses in boss battles as an example of something...
Androula Christofides Henriques. Papert's third wife was MIT professor SherryTurkle, and together they wrote the influential paper "Epistemological Pluralism...
author Lawrence Lessig in 2004, though it can also be attributed to SherryTurkle in 2002. An insurmountable volume or backlog of legitimate messages...
is much less easily imitated. In her book Life on the Screen (1995), SherryTurkle discusses the concept of bricolage as it applies to problem solving...
in touch with people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Alone Together SherryTurkle considered how people confuse social media usage with authentic communication...
.and only to those who continued to travel with him." According to SherryTurkle, these attitudes are "representative of how most members of the Association...
past-tense, "posthuman and projectionary", due to its immortality. SherryTurkle, professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, believes...
machine. The confederate effect is the reverse of the ELIZA effect, which SherryTurkle states is humans' "more general tendency to treat responsive computer...
Sommers Thomas Sowell Ian Stewart Beverly Daniel Tatum James Traub SherryTurkle Eric Topol Michael Walzer Elizabeth Warren George Weigel Steven Weinberg...
internet researchers, early cyber-ethnographers such as Sandy Stone and SherryTurkle observed that participants in online role-playing communities enact...
theorists, such as SherryTurkle, have written books that perhaps do not directly tackle sociomateriality, but have it on their horizon. Turkle's two books focus...
text-based conversation has also been observed by American psychologist SherryTurkle. Her work cites connectivity as an important trigger of social behavior...
Schwartz Christopher Shin Chris Soghoian Ondi Timoner Zeynep Tufekci SherryTurkle Siva Vaidhyanathan Debra Aho Williamson The film received a very mixed...
read something from himself, or other writers such as Nicholas Carr, SherryTurkle, Andrew Keen, Howard Rheingold, Richard Barbrook, Tim Wu, or even the...
(editors), Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice, 2008 SherryTurkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, 1984 Arturo Escobar...
fall in love, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk". For SherryTurkle "making the computer into a second self, finding a soul in the machine...
Thorson, Canadian actress 1948 – Philip Jackson, English actor 1948 – SherryTurkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg...
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