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Sherry Turkle Biography

Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) 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 Ph.D. 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.

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People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

Attachment, Cover, People, Technology, Things, Young

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.

Busy, Connect, Create, Organizations, Sometimes, Thinking

When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either. " But we did this without having the conversation.

Convenient, Maybe, Okay, Privacy, Social, Social Network

It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook. . . when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

Account, Faces, Inhibited, Ironic, Same, Thinking

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

Encounters, Doe, Kind, Experience, Intimacy

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

Fascination, Freudian, Guilty, Mind, Self

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

Determined, Giving, Human, Quality, Treat

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Appreciate, Computers, Think, Thinking, Writing

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Expect, Inspiration, Motivation, Technology

Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text. " In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.

Feeling, Feelings, Kids, Like, Sending, Vote

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Conversation, Learn, Like, Someday

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call. ' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

Efficient, Faces, Generations, Information, Risky, See

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Changing, Doe, Technology, Things, Who We Are

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

Beat, Family, Moving, Pull, Trying, Vulnerable

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

Mean, Technology, Challenges, Values, Human

There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

Away, Child, Children, Eye, Families, School

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

Abandon, Distribute, May

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Bad, Computer, Computers, Good, Powerful

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Being Alone, Expectations, Feelings, Lessened, Risk

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Attention, People, Reality, World

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