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STS
Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
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Sherry Turkle
Professor Turkle received her B.A. from Radcliffe College (Social
Studies, 1970) and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (Sociology and
Personality Psychology, 1976). Professor Turkle's research examines
the sociology of science, especially the sciences of the mind, and
the subjective side of people's relationships with technology as
they impact on questions of identity and definitions of self. Her
current research examines the psychological impact of computational
objects as they become increasingly "relational"
artifacts.
In January 2001, Professor Turkle founded the MIT Initiative on
Technology and Self. The Initiative studies the multiple channels
by which contemporary technologies become enmeshed in the formation
of human identity. The Initiative's flagship working groups include
Robots and Human Identity; Adolescence, Technology, and Identity;
Psychopharmacology and Identity ("Rx/ID"); and Design, Space, and
Software ("Architecture"). Groups in formation include: Information
Technology and Identity ("Virtuality and Its Discontents);
Nanotechnology and Identity; The Experience of the Archive:
Physical and Digital; Gender, Technology, and Identity; and
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Technology and Self.
Professor Turkle has received fellowships from the Aspen Institute,
the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation and
grants from the IBM Corporation, National Science Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Mitchell
Kapor Foundation. She is a graduate and affiliate member of the
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a licensed clinical
psychologist. Her writings include Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques
Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (2nd ed. 1992), The Second
Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (2nd ed. forthcoming), and
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995).
Activities:
Initiative on Technology and Self
Sherry Turkle is founder and director of the MIT Initiative on
Technology and Self, sponsored by the Kapor Foundation, and
continues her NSF-funded work on Relational Artifacts, centering on
robotics and artificial creatures.
NSF Grant
Professors Turkle (PI), Dumit, Gusterson, Mindell, and Susan Silbey
(Anthropology) received a grant from the NSF to investigate the
effects of new information technologies on professional identities
and the conduct of scientific and professional work. They will host
a conference in September 2003 to explore areas where there has
been a rethinking of the nature of the disciplines as a result of
the introduction of visualization and simulation.
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