Sherry Turkle studies the relationship between people and technology - how does technology change our ways of seeing ourselves and the world. There is all that technology does for us, but there is all that technology does to us as people. How does it affect how our children grow up? How we relate to each other?
Her 2011 Alone Together, argues that we are at a point of decision and opportunity. Technology now invites us to lose ourselves in always-in mobile connections and even in relationships with inanimate creatures that offer to "stand in" for the real. In the face of all this, technology offers us the occasion to reconsider our human values, and reaffirm what they are.
Alone Together is the third book in a trilogy on our evolving relationships to digital technology. The first two were The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon and Schuster, 1984; Touchstone paper, 1985; second revised edition, MIT Press, 2005) and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, November 1995; Touchstone paper, 1997).
One of Turkle's lifelong passions is our relationships with objects (not just computers). This has been the focus of a series of books on people's close connections to the "objects of their lives," all published by the MIT Press: Evocative Ojects: Things We Think With (2007), Falling For Science: Objects in Mind (2008), The Inner History of Devices (2008), and Simulation and Its Discontents (2009). Turkle is also the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (Basic Books, 1978; MIT Press paper, 1981; second revised edition, Guilford Press, 1992).
Turkle's most recent work, to be published by Penguin Press in October 2016 is Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. It argues that there is an assault on empathy that is affecting our personal and work lives and that conversation, the most human and humanizing thing we do, is the talking cure. It analyzes a contemporary flight from conversation and charts the way back to using face-to-face communication to find each other and find ourselves.
Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.
2 有用 momo 2020-03-19 09:31:26
以为90年代的书不会有什么新知,我错了。互联网的形成发展以及互动方式和知识生产都是在不断动态变化着的,彼时的计算机与现在的环境和内涵都太不同了。
2 有用 牛奶配送员 2017-04-14 10:34:12
前面关于电脑演变模糊机器人与人类界限的部分有些难懂,但后面的个案使用情况和人格心理分析让人印象深刻。我们不可避免在网络中尝试多种人格,创造“想成为的样子”,而最好的选择是在现实生活中成为那个样子。
1 有用 溯溪 2019-01-07 22:03:12
开启互联网身份研究的学术传统。大量质性访谈支撑起了论文内容,学术分析虽通俗易懂但讲求逻辑,许多观点具有远瞻性。
0 有用 namik_ercan 2014-09-13 19:24:44
Sherry Turkle是研究互聯網對人類生活、社交模式等方面產生影響的專家,她的《虛擬化身》成書于上世紀末,以當時很流行的“泥巴”網絡遊戲為研究對象,分析了玩家為何會沉迷在這個純文字的遊戲中生活、工作、求愛甚至生育,作者也希望就一些由互聯網引起的話題下結論,譬如在網絡世界和虛擬角色做愛是否也是對現實中配偶的背叛,4顆星
0 有用 MrCondom 2022-04-03 15:38:11
科技背景的时代限制还是太强了
0 有用 MrCondom 2022-04-03 15:38:11
科技背景的时代限制还是太强了
2 有用 momo 2020-03-19 09:31:26
以为90年代的书不会有什么新知,我错了。互联网的形成发展以及互动方式和知识生产都是在不断动态变化着的,彼时的计算机与现在的环境和内涵都太不同了。
1 有用 溯溪 2019-01-07 22:03:12
开启互联网身份研究的学术传统。大量质性访谈支撑起了论文内容,学术分析虽通俗易懂但讲求逻辑,许多观点具有远瞻性。
2 有用 牛奶配送员 2017-04-14 10:34:12
前面关于电脑演变模糊机器人与人类界限的部分有些难懂,但后面的个案使用情况和人格心理分析让人印象深刻。我们不可避免在网络中尝试多种人格,创造“想成为的样子”,而最好的选择是在现实生活中成为那个样子。
0 有用 namik_ercan 2014-09-13 19:24:44
Sherry Turkle是研究互聯網對人類生活、社交模式等方面產生影響的專家,她的《虛擬化身》成書于上世紀末,以當時很流行的“泥巴”網絡遊戲為研究對象,分析了玩家為何會沉迷在這個純文字的遊戲中生活、工作、求愛甚至生育,作者也希望就一些由互聯網引起的話題下結論,譬如在網絡世界和虛擬角色做愛是否也是對現實中配偶的背叛,4顆星