- Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Born: | 18 June 1948 Comment | How old is Sherry Turkle in 2024? / Age: | 75 years
| Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
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Sherry Turkle facts
- 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
- In The Second Self, originally published in 1984, Turkle writes about how computers are not tools as much as they are a part of our social and psychological lives
- “‘Technology,’ she writes, ‘catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think
- ’” She goes on using Jean Piaget's psychology discourse to discuss how children learn about computers and how this affects their minds
- The Second Self was received well by critics and was praised for being “a very thorough and ambitious study
- ”nIn Life on the Screen, Turkle discusses how emerging technology, specifically computers, affect the way we think and see ourselves as humans
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