Sherry Turkle

Notes From My (Book)shelf: Week of April 23, 2012

Roxanne Coady | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Jack Finney, Girls, 50 Shades of Grey, Sherry Turkle, Mitch Joel, Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady, Book Clubs, Six Pixels of Separation, Lena Dunham, Book Recommendations, Best Books April 2012, Book List, Best Books, Best Books 2012, Books News

Since there is an astonishing amount of information out there, I thought it might be fun to share with you items I have noticed, learned or was curious about in the past week.

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Education Unplugged: Learning Through Conversation

Michael Roth | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Liberal Education, Sherry Turkle, The New York Times, Learning Conversation, Conversation Skills, Technology Brain, Learning and Technology, Technology and Conversation, Social Media Brain, Conversation, College News

One of the wonderful things about teaching through conversation is that we get to help our students unplug from the inputs they have customized to reinforce their own tastes, expectations and identities.

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Can You Unplug for 24 Hours?

Heidi Sinclair | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: National Unplug Day 2012, National Day of Unplugging, National Day of Unplugging 2012, National Unplug Day, Sherry Turkle, Recharge, Unplug, Technology News

By letting technology into our lives in an unbounded fashion, we are not only losing the art of conversation, we are losing our emotional lives. The answer is putting the technology in its place. It is time for all of us to unplug for one day.

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Mating With a Machine? Maybe It's Not a Cop Out

Claudia Ricci | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Robotics, Sherry Turkle, Japanese Robots, People Mating Machines, Robots, Sexbots, Technology News

Given a choice between a man who brutalizes and murders, and a robot, I would opt for the robot in a heartbeat.

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The Lost Art of Staring into Space

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Maushart, Sherry Turkle, Cupcakes, Disconnecting, Evgeny Morozov, The Winter of Our Disconnect, Iphones, Books News

At a bakery near my apartment last Sunday, I watched a girl, about 10 years old, eat a cupcake and try to get her mother's attention, but Mom had eyes and fingers only for her iPhone.

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How Internet Tools Emphasize Our Priorities

Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Sherry Turkle, Twitter, Tools, Online, Digital, Adam-Gopnik, Technology, Clay Shirky, Technology News

To say that the internet turns people into loners would be slander against this passive technology.

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Message To Facebook: I'm Taking Back My Happiness

Amy Gutman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Richard Thaler, Sherry Turkle, Behavioral Economics, Facebook, Cass Sunstein, Libby Copeland, Facebook Emotion Analysis, Facebook Depression, Relationships, Facebook Status Updates, Nudge, Facebook-Happiness, Facebook Status, Facebook Status Study, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Facebook: Good or bad? Is it nurturing our families and communities by bringing us closer together? Or is it a dangerous threat -- a technology that fosters isolation, anxiety and narcissism?

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A Rare Letter From a Gifted Ethnographer to Her Born-Digital Daughter

Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Web 2.0, Twitter, Sherry Turkle, Computers, Mit, Facebook, Social Media, Education, Education News

With her newest book, Alone Together (Basic Books), Sherry Turkle, the ethnographer of people's relationship with technology, completes a trilogy begun with The Second Self in 1984.

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Alone Together: Interviewing Sherry Turkle and Michael Bugeja.

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sherry Turkle. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. (New York, Basic Books, 2011): $28.95. 384 pages. Michael...

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WATCH: Stephen Colbert Asks Sherry Turkle

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of the new book "Alone Together," told Stephen Colbert "we have to put technology in its place" on "The Colber...

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Electronics Changes Books, Bookstores and Publishing for Christmas 2009

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Taylor Gatto, Winter Olympics, Sherry Turkle, Made to Break, Dumbest Generation, Dumbing US Down, Life on the Screen, Giles Slade, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Palin, Ereaders, Ken Bruen, Kindle Reader, Amazon.com, Sony, Apple, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sales, Mark Bauerlein, Oprah, Itablet, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Boulevard, Chicago Tribune, Books News

On the day before Christmas, I realized I didn't have a present for my friend, Tom Harapnuik, who'd given me a copy of Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Ge...

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