Who is Sherry Turkle? Presented by Donna Knight

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Who is Sherry Turkle?Presented by Donna Knight

• Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social
  Studies of Science and Technology in the Program
  in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT
• MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

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Sometimes she is referred to as

• Cyberanalyst
• Margaret Mead In Cyberspace
• cybershrink

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Professor Turkle is the author of

• Psychoanalytic Politics Jacques Lacan and
  Freud's French Revolution
• The Second Self Computers and the Human Spirit
• Life on the Screen  Identity in the Age of the
  Internet

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Currently working on

• Evocative Objects Things We Think With and
  Objects in Mind Falling for Science, Technology,
  and Design
• Inner History of Devices

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Sherry Turkle

• written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and
  culture
• her profiles have appeared in 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 and 20/20.

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• Turkle's early studies of computer life focused
  on how people's identities were reflected back at
  them by their computer screens
• Right now Turkle is especially intrigued by the
  complex interactions children have with high tech
  toys

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Creating equity in technology education

• "Girls and boys will come to technology from
  different paths however, the idea is to create a
  curriculum that is flexible enough so that
  different people (not just in terms of gender)
  will make the technology their own in their own
  way."

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One final quote

• One of the things that happens on the Internet
  is that you can be who you say you are. It's one
  of the appeals. It's one of the things that I
  argue gives it a kind of excitement as a place to
  live out your fantasies and experiment with
  aspects of yourself. But it also means that when
  you meet people online they're not necessarily
  who they say they are.