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Turkle (Sherry). — The second self: Computers and the Human Spirit
No full textTerlon Claire. Turkle (Sherry). — The second self: Computers and the Human Spirit . In: Revue française de pédagogie, volume 72, 1985. pp. 106-111
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (audio)
No full textA professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is a professor at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her latest book “Alone Together” explores our digital lives in todays always on, always connected culture. Profiles o f Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline an d 20/2
Reclaiming Conversation : The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
No full textWe live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don't have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents' attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity. But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human and humanizing thing that we do. The virtues of person to person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.436p.;15,5x23,5c
Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other?
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Computers and People: Personal Computation
No full textIn the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, MITs, short for Micro Instrumentation and Telementry System, a small computer company in Albequerque, New Mexico, announced the Altair, a computer small enough to sit on a desktop, powerful enough to support high level language programming, and that you could build for only $429
Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other
No full textIn Alone Together, the writer explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It?s a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for?and sacrificing?in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today?s self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity
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