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Talks by Sherry Turkle

Papers by Sherry Turkle

Social Studies of Science, 1982

174 Social Studies of Science genie, the workhorse that we could mount today and ride onto the ne... more 174 Social Studies of Science genie, the workhorse that we could mount today and ride onto the new millenium. By the end of the 1970s, with the mass manufacture of personal computers, the promises extended into the home. Home computers would teach us ...

Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 2003

Abstract When computer literacy was almost synonymous with programming, the programming-in-educat... more Abstract When computer literacy was almost synonymous with programming, the programming-in-education advocates were divided into two camps: those who supported BASIC as the language of choice and those who supported the Logo language. BASIC, ...

Sociological Inquiry, 1997

Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2004

This is a report that reflects work from several studies in which commercially available robotic ... more This is a report that reflects work from several studies in which commercially available robotic creatures, Furbies, My Real Babies and AIBOs, were introduced into two nursing home settings in Massachusetts as well as into the lives of children, both in school settings and in their homes. The purpose of integrating case studies from these disparate studies is to open up a conversation about the range of issues that are raised by even very simple relational artifacts as a matrix for building relationships. These issues are important for two main reasons. First, ethnographic work with even simple robots illustrates how cybercompanions are evocative objects for reflection on such issues as what is essential about aliveness, about being a person and about the roles of thought and feeling, affect and cognition in defining human uniqueness. Second, this paper reports on individual differences among the users of robotic technology, differences that have to do with personality and cognitive style. As robots move into the therapeutic domain, such individual differences will become increasingly relevant to the field of "clinical robotics."

Society, 1980

A ticket agent who uses computers to make airline reservations begins a conversation about the co... more A ticket agent who uses computers to make airline reservations begins a conversation about the computer by presenting it as a totally neutral object--programmed, passive, completely under the control of its operators and their input, threatening only in its impersonality--and then ...

Robotics and Automation, 2006. …, 2006

My first encounters with how computers change the way we think came soon after I joined the facul... more My first encounters with how computers change the way we think came soon after I joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, at the end of the era of the slide rule and the beginning of the era of the personal computer. At a lunch for new ...

... Turkle, Sherry; Papert, Seymour. Harel, Idit (Ed); Papert, Seymour (Ed), (1991 ... keep women... more ... Turkle, Sherry; Papert, Seymour. Harel, Idit (Ed); Papert, Seymour (Ed), (1991 ... keep women out, but by ways of thinking that make them reluctant to join in / our central thesis is that equal access to even the most basic elements of computation requires an epistemological pluralism ...

Technology and women's voices: Keeping in touch, 1988

... be afraid of" screwing things up." I think that being a" hacker-type" cor... more ... be afraid of" screwing things up." I think that being a" hacker-type" correlates ... formal systems are complex, but something about the computer's contribution is becoming increasingly clear. ... The com-puter offers a new cultural opportunity to expand the social base of mathematical ...