STS Circle at Harvard [image.png] Sherry Turkle MIT, STS on The Dystopian Presented as the Utopian: Does the Internet Lead Us to Forget What We Know About Life?
Monday, November 11 12:15-2:00 pm Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Room 119 [image.png] Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please RSVP to sts<mailto:[email protected]>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by 5pm Today, Wednesday, November 6. Abstract: We are in a culture where we always connected, but only rarely in conversations where we give each other our full attention. I consider the importance of this kind of conversation and, as a partisan of conversation, the importance of reclaiming it. I look at where we are in this project through the particular prism of how technology currently represents re-presents cultural images that used to be dystopian as utopian. This happens on the individual, the interpersonal, and the social level. These correspond to Thoreau's "three chairs" of human conversation. Considering our problem through the lens of his analysis helps situate human values on ground independent from technological fantasies. Biography: Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Since the early 1980s, Turkle has studied how technology don’t just change what we do but who we are. Professor Turkle's most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other<http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other/dp/0465010210/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284396742&sr=1-1>. It is the third book in a trilogy on the computer culture that also includes The<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10515> Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10515> and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet<http://www.amazon.com/Life-Screen-Identity-Age-Internet/dp/0684833484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275922909&sr=1-1>. She is also the author of Simulation and Its Discontents<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11677> and Evocative Objects: Things We Think With<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11121>. She is currently working on a book on conversation in digital culture. In addition to her academic work, Professor Turkle is a featured media commentator, appearing on major news networks and shows from Fresh Air to CBS Morning News, to The Colbert Report; she was a Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year, and one of Esquire Magazine’s “40 Under 40 Who are Changing the Nation.” Among her many other awards, Professor Turkle is a recipient of a Guggeheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. In 2013, She was named a Boston Literary Light by the Associates of the Boston Public Library and Received the Harvard Centennial Medal by the Graduate School of Harvard University. A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/sts_circle/ Follow us on Facebook: STS@Harvard<http://www.facebook.com/HarvardSTS> _______________________________________________
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