Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science
and Technology
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www
MIT Initiative on Technology and Self: http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/techself
Program in Science, Technology, and
Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E51-296C
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-4068
Fax: (617) 258-8118
sturkle@media.mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www
Harvard University
| 1976 | Ph.D., Sociology and Personality Psychology |
| Dissertation: "Psychoanalysis and Society: The Emergence of French Freud" | |
| 1973 | M.A., Sociology |
| 1971 | Committee on Social Thought |
Radcliffe College
| 1970 | A.B., Social Studies, summa cum laude |
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris
| 1969 | Certificat d'Etudes Politiques |
Academic Appointments
| 2001-present | Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Director, Initiative on Technology and Self |
| 1999-present | Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology |
| 1991-present | Professor of the Sociology of Science |
| 1980-1991 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
| 1976-present | Member, Laboratory for Computer Science |
| 1976-1980 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
| 1975-1976 | Research Fellow in Sociology |
| Harvard University | |
| 1971-1973 | Tutor and Teaching Fellow, Social Studies, Psychology, Social Relations, Sociology |
| 1997 | Harvard
University University Health Services Department of Mental Health Consultant in Psychology |
| 1987 | Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Graduate and Affiliate Member |
| 1978 | Commonwealth
of Massachusetts Licensed Clinical Psychologist |
| 1974-1975 | Harvard
University Health Services Psychology Intern |
| 1971-1973 | Cambridge
Hospital, Harvard University Psychology Intern |
Awards and Fellowships
| 2002 | World Economic Forum Fellow |
| 2002 | Named one of the Top Ten Wired Women by ABC New.com |
| 2000 | Named one of Time Magazine's Innovators of the Internet |
| 1999 | Danz Professorship, University of Washington at Seattle |
| 1998 | Named one of Boston's Top Wired Women by Boston Webgrrls |
| 1997 | Named one of top 50 Cyber Elite by Time Digital Magazine |
| 1997 | Selected Member of "Computer 200" an exhibit of the leaders of the computer industry. Exhibited at the Association of Computing Machinery's 50th Anniversary meeting and exhibited and archived at the Boston Computer Museum. |
| 1997 | "Seeing Through Computers" selected as one of Top 20 Articles of the year by the American Library Association's Library Instruction Round Table. |
| 1995 | Selected Member of "50 for the Future: the Most Influential People to Watch in Cyberspace," Newsweek Magazine |
| 1992 | American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow |
| 1990 | Claremont University Center and Graduate School, Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree and President's Medal |
| 1985 | Selected
Member of Esquire Register "America's New Leadership Class,"
Esquire Magazine |
| 1985 | Melcher Book Award for The Second Self,Cambridge Forum |
| 1985 | Matrix Award, Association for Women in Communications |
| 1984 | Selected "Woman of the Year," Ms. Magazine |
| 1981 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1980 | Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship |
| 1977 | Mellon Fellowship, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies |
| 1975 | Peter Livingstone
Award for Research in the Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatry, Harvard University |
| 1974 | Dissertation Award, C. Douglas Dillon Chair of French Civilization, Harvard University |
| 1970 | Danforth Graduate Fellowship |
| 1969 | Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College |
| 1997 | Committee on Privacy |
| 1990-present | Communications Forum |
| 1990-1992 | Committee for the Future of Educational Computing |
| 1990-1992 | Academic Computing Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 1989-1990 | Committee on Academic Computation for the 1990's and Beyond |
| 1985-present | Women Studies Steering Committee |
| 1984-1988 | Project
Athena Study Group Principal Investigator, "Educational Impact of Project Athena" |
| 1979 | Chair, Ad hoc Faculty Committee on Student Advising |
| 1978-1979 | "Nightline" Peer Counseling Faculty Advisory Group |
| 1978-1979 | Chair, Faculty Committee on the Student Environment |
| 1976-1977 | Division
for Study and Research in Education Co-Director, Lilly Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship |
| 2001-present | Social
Science Research Council Advisory Board on Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology |
| 2000-present | MacArthur Foundation |
| Committee on Information Technology | |
| 2000 | The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences |
| 1999-present | Oxygen/Markle Pulse Advisory Board |
| 1999 | Harvard
Business School Global Leadership Initiative Thought Leader Forum |
| 1999-present | Harvard
College Visiting Committee on Information Technology |
| 1998-present | American
Association of University Women Educational Foundation Co-chair of Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education |
| 1997-2002 | Ernst &
Young Center for Business Innovation Visiting Fellow |
| 1997 | The Aspen
Institute Communications and Society Program Roundtable on Democracy in the Digital Age |
| 1997 | World Economic
Forum Fellow |
| 1996-present | Ross School
and Ross Institute Mentor |
| 1995-present | Massachusetts Women's Forum |
| 1995-1998 | Harvard
Magazine Board of Directors |
| 1994 | Advanced
Research Projects Agency MUDshop: ARPA Workshop on Multi-User Domains and Schools |
| 1994 | Aspen Institute
Roundtable on Information Technology |
| 1994-present | Science,
Technology, and Human Values Editorial Advisory Board |
| 1991-1992 | Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation Strategic Planning Committee for Technology-Based Education Outside Schools |
| 1987-present | Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility Advisory Board |
| 1986-1988 | United
States Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel for Study of Educational Technology |
| Kurzweil
Foundation Board of Advisors for Exhibition, "The Age of Intelligent Machines" |
|
| National
Academy of Arts and Sciences Planning Group for Daedalus "Artificial Intelligence" |
|
| Smithsonian
Institution Consultant for Exhibition "The Information Revolution" |
|
| United
States Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel for Study of Intellectual Property Rights |
|
| Social
Science Research Council Organizer of Research Group "Social Studies of Computational Environments" |
|
| United
States Congress House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology Testimony on Computers and Education |
|
| 1985 | WNET, New
York Advisory Committee for Programming on Computers and Society |
| 1984-present | Harvard
Magazine Board of Incorporators |
| 1984-1986 | Computers
and the Social Sciences Associate Editor |
| 1984-1985 | Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Women's Studies Program Co-organizer of Conference "Women in a Computer-Communications Based Society" |
| 1983-1984 | Brown University
Consultant on Computer-Intensive Learning Environments |
| 1981-1983 | American
Bar Association Panel on Computers and Privacy |
| 1981-1983 | New York
Academy of Sciences Planning Committee for Symposium "Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer" |
| 1979-1982 | United
States Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel for Study of Societal Impacts of National Information Systems |
Books
Life on the
Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Paperback edition, New York: Touchstone,
1997.
(Also published in a British edition and
Chinese, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Swedish translations.)
The Second
Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Paperback edition, New York: Touchstone,
1985.
Second edition with new introduction, Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2005..
(Also published in a British edition and
French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, and
Danish translations.)
Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
Paperback edition, Cambridge: MIT Press,
1981.
Second edition with new Preface and Afterword,
New York: Guilford Press, 1992.
(Also published in a British edition and
French,
Italian, and Spanish translations.)
Reports
"Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age," co-edited as chair of the AAUW Educational Foundation Commissioners, April 2000.
"Project Athena at MIT," with Donald
Schön, Brenda Nielsen, M. Stella Orsini and Wim Overmeer, May 1988.
Chapters in Books
“Computer Games as Evocative Objects: From Projective Screens to Relational Artifacts.” Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Joost Raessens, and Jeffrey Goldstein (eds.), forthcoming.
"First Encounters with Kismet and Cog: Children Respond to Relational Artifacts." In Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys (eds.), New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2005.
"The Objects of Our Lives." In When We Were Kids, John Brockman (ed.).
New York: Pantheon, 2004.
"Our Split Screens." In Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice, Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney (eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
"The Fellowship of the Microchip." In Globalization: Culture and Education in the
New Millenium, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Desiree Baolian Qin-Hilliard
(eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press/Ross Institute, 2004.
"'Spinning' Technology." In Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change,Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (eds.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
"Sociable Technologies: Enhancing Human Performance when the computer
is not a tool but a companion." Converging
Technologies for Improving Human Performance, Mihail C. Roco, and
William Sims Bainbridge (eds.). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2003.
"Collaborative Selves, Collaborative Worlds: Identity in the Information Age." Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities,James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands (eds.). NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2003.
"E-Futures and E-Personae." In Designing for a Digital World, Neil Leach (ed.) London; John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
"All MOOs are Educational -- the Experience of 'Walking through the Self.'" Foreword to High-Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik (eds.) . 2d ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
"TechnoTalk: E-Mail, the Internet, and Other 'Compversations.'" (with S.I. Salamensky) In Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversations, S.I. Salamensky (ed.). New York: Routledge, 2001.
"Toys to Change Our Minds." In Predictions,Sian Griffiths (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
"What Are We Thinking About When We Are Thinking About Computers?" In The Science Studies Reader,Mario Biagioli (ed.). New York: Routledge, 1999.
"Identity in the Age of the Internet" In The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation, Hugh Mackay and Tim O'Sullivan (eds.). London: Sage, 1999.
"Commodity and Community in Personal Computing." In High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology, Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell (eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
"Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm: Ideas about Life in the Culture of Simulation." In Cyborg Babies: From Technosex to Technotots, Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit (eds.). New York: Routledge, 1998.
"The Virtual Reality Perspective." Interview in New Personae by Debra Jo Immergut. Milan: Biennale di Firenze: il tempo e la moda and Skira Publishers, 1997.
"Tinysex and Gender Trouble." In Feminisms, Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Also published in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, Patrick D. Hopkins (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999; and Liberating Cyberspace,Liz Parratt (ed.). London: Pluto Press, forthcoming.)
"All MUDS are Educational: The Experience of 'Walking Through the Self'." Forward to High Wired: Negotiating the Tightrope of Educational MOOs,Cynthia Haynes and Jan Holmevik (eds.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
"Growing up in the Culture of Simulation." in Beyond Calculation: The Next 50 Years of Computing, Peter Denning and Bob Metcalfe (eds.). New York: Copernicus Books (Springer Verlag), 1997.
"The Cyberanalyst." In Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, John Brockman (ed.). San Francisco: HardWired, 1996.
"Rethinking Identity Through Virtual Community." In Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture,Lynn Hershman Leeson (ed.). Seattle: Bay Press, 1996.
"Parallel Lives: Working on Identity in Virtual Space." In Constructing the Social Self in a Mediated World, Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof, (eds.). New York: Sage, 1996
"Tough Love: An Introduction to Dolto" In When Parents Separate Francoise Dolto. Lincoln. MA: David R. Godine, 1995.
"Identity and the Internet." In How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind, John Brockman and Katinka Matson (eds.). New York: William Morrow and Co., 1995.
"Project Athena at MIT." (with Donald Schön) In Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies,Donald Schön and Martin Rein, New York: Basic Books, 1994.
"Computational Seductions: The Roots of Computer Holding Power." In Demystifying Media Technology: Readings from the Freedom Forum Center,John V. Pavlik and Everette E. Dennis (eds.). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1993.
"Computer Culture." In Technologies for the 21st Century: Multimedia in Review,Martin Greenberger (ed.). Santa Monica: Council for Technology and the Individual, 1992.
"Psychoanalytic Culture: Jacques Lacan and the Social Appropriation of Psychoanalysis." In Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis, Humphrey Morris (ed.). Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
"Paradoxical Reactions and Powerful Ideas: Educational Computing in a Department of Physics." In Sociomedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Edward Barrett (ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. (Reprinted in Work and Technology in Higher Education: The Social Construction of Academic Computing,Mark Shields (ed.). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 1995.)
"Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete." In Constructionism,Idit Harel and Seymour Papert (eds.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1991. (Reprinted in Journal of Mathematical Behavior,11, 1, March 1992.)
"Romantic Reactions: Paradoxical Responses to the Computer Presence." In The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines,James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
"Style as Substance in Educational Computing." In The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes, Jacques Berleur, Richard Sizer, Diane Whitehouse, and Andrew Clement (eds.). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
"Growing Up in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Reconstructions of the Psychological and Reconsiderations of the Human." In The Age of Intelligent Machines,Raymond Kurzweil (ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
"Minds and Screens: Mirrors for the Post-Modern." In Smithsonian Institution Catalogue for Exhibition Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian, 1990.
"Political Philosophy's Psychologized Self: 'Speaking prose without knowing it.'" (with Nancy Rosenblum) In Critical Issues in Social Thought,Murray Milgate and Cheryl B. Welch (eds.). San Diego: Academic Press, 1989.
"Computers and Psychological Development." In Knowledge and Communication in the Computer Age,Claire Forchheimer (ed.). Linkoping, Sweden: University in Linkoping, Institute of Tema Research, 16, 1988.
"Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine." In Technology and Women's Voices,Cheris Kramerae (ed.). New York: Pergamon Press, 1986.
"Lacan and America: The Problem of Discourse." In Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory,Sander Gilman (ed.). New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1982.
"La France Freudienne." Introduction to the French translation of Psychoanalytic Politics. Paris: Grasset, 1981.
"French Anti-psychiatry." In Critical Psychiatry: The Politics of Mental Health,David Ingleby (ed.). New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
"French Psychoanalysis: A Sociological Perspective." In Psychoanalysis, Creativity and Literature: A French-American Inquiry,Alan Roland (ed.). New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
"Symbol and Festival in the French Student
Uprising (May and June 1968)." In Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology:
Cases and Questions,Barbara Meyerhoff and Sally Moore (eds.). Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1976.
Articles
"Whither Psychoanalysis in Computer Culture." Psychoanalytic Psychology: Journal of the Division
of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, 21, 1 Winter
2004.
"How Computers Have Changed the Way We Think." The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information
Technology, January 30, 2004.
"Technology and Human Vulnerability." Harvard Business Review, September 2003.
"From Powerful Ideas to PowerPoint." Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 9, 2, Summer 2003.
"Our Split Screens." Etnofoor, December 2002.
"Lord of the Hackers." New York Times, Op-Ed, 7 March 2002.
"Whither Psychoanalysis in the Computer Culture." Bulletin of the Freud Museum, 1/2002.
"Elsevier's International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, s.v., "psychology of virtual reality," and "computer/human interface." Oxford: Pergamon Press, 2001.
"When Toys Are Us." Forbes ASAP, October 2, 2000
"Cuddling Up to Cyborg Babies." UNESCO The Courier, September 2000.
"The Digital Future: From Rorschach to Relational Artifact." Radcliffe Quarterly, Winter 2000.
"Tinysex and Gender Trouble." IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 18, 4, Winter 2000.
"Cyberspace and Identity." Contemporary Sociology, no. 28, November 1999.
"Drag Net." Utne Reader,no. 89, September/October 1998.
"Multiple Subjectivity and Virtual Community at the End of the Freudian Century." Sociological Inquiry, 67, 1, Winter 1997.
"Computational Technologies and Images of the Self," Social Research,64, 4, Fall 1997.
"Seeing Through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation." The American Prospect, 8, 31, March-April 1997.
"Virtual Selves." Boston Magazine,November 1996.
"Who am We?" Wired,4, 1, January 1996.
"Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace." The American Prospect, 7, 24, Winter 1996.
"The Ghost in the Machine."The Sciences,November/December, 1995.
"Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality." Mind, Culture, and Activity,1, 3, Summer 1994. (Reprinted in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation,Timothy Druckrey (ed.). Aperture Foundation, 1996 and Culture of the Internet,Sara Kiesler (ed.). Hilldale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.)
"The Hillary Wars." London Review of Books,14, 20, October 22, 1992.
"Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete." (with Seymour Papert) Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 11, 1, 1992.
"If the Computer is a Tool, Is it More Like a Hammer or More Like a Harpsichord?" National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal,71, 3, Summer 1991.
"Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture." (with Seymour Papert) Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16, 1, Autumn 1990. (Reprinted in In Search of Gender Free Paradigms for Computer Science Education, C. Diane Martin and Eric Murchie-Beyma (eds.). Eugene, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education, 1992. Abridged as "Styles and Voices" in For the Learning of Mathematics 13, 1, February 1993.)
"Revolutions in Mind: Computers Are Changing The Way We Think." Journal of Computers and Society,1, 1, Winter 1990.
"Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis: A New Alliance." Daedalus,17, 1, Winter 1988.
"Women and Computer Programming: A Different Approach." Technology Review, 87, 8, November-December 1984. (Reprinted in U.S. Woman Engineer,31, 3, May-June 1985.)
"Computers: The Psychological Machine." American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter,35, 1&2, Winter-Spring 1984.
"The Subjective Computer: A Study in the Psychology of Personal Computation." Social Studies of Science,12, 2, May 1982. (Also published in French: Culture Technique,10, June 1983.)
"'Mon Oncle de Marienbad:' Sociobiology Comes to the Land of Structuralists." Contemporary French Civilization,6, 1-2, Fall- Winter 1981-1982.
"The New Philosophy and the Agony of Structuralism: Enter the Trojan Horse." Chicago Review,32, 3, Winter 1981.
"Is Paris Kidding? The Clown Coluche Runs for President." The Soho News,January 14, 1981.
"Computer as Rorschach." Society,17, 2, January-February 1980.
"Yesterday and Today: Reflections on the Harvard-Radcliffe Reunion of 1969." (with Nancy Rosenblum) The Boston Phoenix,June 19, 1979.
"Contemporary French Psychoanalysis: II. Psychoanalytic Societies and the Structure of the Movement." The Human Context,7, 3, Autumn 1975.
"Contemporary French Psychoanalysis: I. The History of the French Psychoanalytic Movement." The Human Context,7, 2, Summer 1975.
"Le Medecin a Cessé d'etre Un
Dieu." Psychologie,8, 54, July 1974.
Book Reviews
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory by Ian Hacking. London Review of Books, 20, 6, March 19, 1998.
Models Of My Life by Herbert A. Simon. New York Times Book Review, March 17, 1991.
Jacques Lacan and Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France,1925-1985 by Elisabeth Roudinesco. London Review of Books, 12, 23, December 6, 1990.
Winnicott by Adam Phillips. London Review of Books,11, 22, November 23,1989.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book I: Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954 and Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955 edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. London Review of Books, 11,1, January 5, 1989.
By Silence Betrayed: Sexual Abuse of Children in America by John Crewdson. New York Times Book Review, February 7, 1988.
A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers from 1930 to 1980 by Erik Ericson edited by Stephen Schlein. New York Times Book Review, April 5, 1987.
Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth. New York Times Book Review, May 18, 1986.
The Sachertorte Algorithm and Other Antidotes to Computer Anxiety by John Shore. Science '85, 6,4, May 1985.
Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life by Paul Roazen. New York Times Book Review, May 26, 1985.
Ecrits: A Selection and The Four Fundamental Concepts of the Unconscious by Jacques Lacan. Theory and Society, 9, 3, 1980.
The History and Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault. The Nation,188, 3, January 27, 1979.
est: 60 Hours that Transform Your Life by Adelaide Bry, The Pleasure Bond by William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson by Paul Robinson, and The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change by Edwin Schur. Working Papers For A New Society,4, 3, Fall 1976.
Invited Lectures
and Conference Papers (Partial Listing)
CogSci 2005
Relational Artifacts, Children, and Elders: The Complexities of
CyberCompanions
Stresa, Italy, July 2005
Society for Personality and Social Psychology 6th Annual Meeting
Other Minds? How People Perceive Non-Human Agents
Relational Artifacts and Life-practice Sociabilities: What ‘counts’ as alive enough to matter?
New Orleans, January 2005
Humanoids 2004
Encounters with Kismet and Cog: Children’s Relationship with Humanoid Robots
Los Angeles, November 2004
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Teens on Screens: Development and the Technology of Play
Adolescents in Cyberspace (and other places in digital culture)
Washington, DC, October 2004
Milken Institute
Global Conference: Prospering in a Changing World
The Long View: Imagining the Future
Los Angeles, April 2004
Mattel Corporation
Toys, Technology and Identity
Project Platypus Group
El Segundo, March 2004
Harvard University
Nieman Fellows
Psychopharmaceutical and Digital Selves
Cambridge, March 2004
Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
TechnoAnalysis: Guiding Concepts and General Design
Whither Subjectivity in Digital Culture?
Berkeley, October 2003
American Sociological Association
Science, Knowledge, and Technology Panel: The Future of Science Studies
Object Relations for Science and Technology
Studies
Atlanta, August 2003
American Psychoanalytic Association
92nd Annual Meeting
Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture?
Boston, June 2003
Yale University
Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Ethics and Technology Working Research Group
Robots, Virtual Worlds, and the Evolution
of Social Sensibilities
New Haven, May 2003
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Science and Society Colloquium Series
Mediated Citizenship: Representation in a Digital Age
Cambridge, February 2003
The Kitchen
Interactivity and Space
New York City, January 2003
Cambridge Forum
Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture?
Cambridge, December 2002
Camden Technology Conference
POP!Tech 2002: Artificial Worlds
How Artificial Worlds Are Leading Us to Redefine Ourselves
Camden, October 2002
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Harvard-Ross Seminar on Globalization and Education
Globalization and New Ways of Knowing
Cambridge, October 2002
Italian Psychiatric Association
First Conference on Psychology and the Mass Media
Identity and the Age of the Internet
Rome, June 2002
Sigmund Freud Museum
30th Anniversary Freud Lecture
Psychoanalytic Culture and Computer Culture
Vienna, May 2002
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Conference on Globalization and Education
Globalization: Cultural, Technological and Informational Perspectives
New York, April 2002
American Psychological Association
Evolving Domains: Psychoanalysis in Dialogue with Science, Culture and Technology
Whither Psychoanalysis in the Computer Culture?
New York City, April 2002
World Economic Forum
Identity in a Global World
Science: A Source of Security or Vulnerability?
New York City, February 2002
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science
Initimate Machines: "Intersubjectivity?" with Robotic "Pets"
and "Affective" Computers
Cambridge, November 2001
MIT Media Laboratory
ID/entity: Symposium on Technology's Effect on
the Nature of Identity in the 21st Century
Self ID/entity
Cambridge, October 2001
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Warner Brothers/AI Lab panel on Steven
Spielberg's AI
AI: The Reality
Cambridge, April 2001
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Social Science
Lecture series on Information Technology,
New Media and the Social Sciences
Intimate Machines: Human Identity and
"Affective" Computing
Princeton, March 2001
MIT Media Laboratory
z00l: An Animal Odyssey
Symposium on Technology, Zoos of the Future,
and Lessons for Toy Design
From Aristotle to Animatronics
Cambridge, January 2001
The National Academies
National Research Council Board on Children,
Youth, and Familes
Workshop on Children and Computer Technology
Technology and Child Development
Washington, D.C., January 2001
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Digital Citizenship and Its Discontents
Cambridge, January 2001
Harvard University
Facing History and Ourselves Project
All That Jazz: Adolescents &
Adults in Relationship
Adolescence in a Changing World
Cambridge, November 2000
American Psychological Association
Digital Childhood: A Research Agenda on
Human Development and Technology
Panel on Social/Emotional Development
Washington, D.C., October 2000
MIT Media Laboratory
eDevelopment: Enabling Communities to
Empower Themselves
Panel on Community
Cambridge, October 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toys of Tomorrow: Thinking Outside of
the Toybox Symposium
How Gender and Licensing Concerns Affect
How Toys Are Designed
Cambridge, May 2000
American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting Frontiers of Science Lecture
Intimate Machines: From Digital Pets
to Digital Personae
Chicago, May 2000
The Concours Group
Executive Perspective Meeting
Human Capital in a Digital Business
Dallas, May 2000
Harvard University
University Campaign Celebration
Technology and the Transformation of
Identity, Community, and Commerce
Cambridge, May 2000
American Psychiatric Association Division
39
Disembodied Intimacies: Identity and Relationship
on the Internet
Who Am We?: the psychology of
on-line life
San Francisco, April 2000
California Institute of Technology
William and Myrtle Harris Lecture
From Virtual Pets to Digital Dolls:
Reflections on Relational Artifacts
Pasadena, January 2000
Harvard University Humanities Center
in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Ecology/Technology/Cybernetics Seminar
Relational Artifacts
Cambridge, December 1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Calculated Risks, Creative Revolutions
The Cultural Consequences of the Digital
Revolution
Cambridge, November 1999
New School University
Gregory Bateson Lecture
From Virtual Pets to Digital Dolls:
Reflections on Relational Artifacts
New York, November 1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conference "Media in Transition"
Childhood and Adolescence in a Mediated
Culture
Cambridge, October 1999
The Wall Street Journal Millenium Forum
"The Evolution of Commerce"
What Endures?
Cambridge, October 1999
The University of Washington
Jessie and John Danz Lecture
Relational Artifacts: From Virtual Pets
to Digital Dolls
Seattle, October 1999
The Concours Group
Conference "Advanced Technology Insights
for CIOs"
Communication in the Corporation: New
Technologies, New Identities
Kohler, July 1999
IFIP/IEEE
Sixth International Symposium on Integrated
Network Management
Relational Artifacts: From Furbies to
Affective Computing
Boston, May 1999
Council for Technology and the Individual
Conference "Technology: The Human Dimension"
Ideas to Evolve By: The New Artificial
Intelligence
San Jose, April 1999
The University of Michigan
John D. Evans Distinguished Lecture Series
Computer Visions: What Are We Thinking
About When We Are Thinking About Computers?
Ann Arbor, January 1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Symposium "Global/Local: Issues of Identity
in the Postcolonial Era"
Virtual Personae: Local and Global
Chicago, December 1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Series on Technology and the Corporation
Conference "The Internet: Next Generation
and Beyond"
Who Am We? The Psychology of Online
Life
Cambridge, December 1998
University of Southern California
Annenberg School for Communication
Conference "Technological Visions: Utopian
and Dystopian Perspectives"
Spinning Technology
Los Angeles, November 1998
Smithsonian Associates and Library of
Congress Freud Exhibition
Psychoanalytic and Computer Cultures
Washington, D.C., October 1998
Center for Media Education Conference
Conference "Ensuring a Quality Children's
Media Culture in the Digital Age"
Growing up in a Culture of Simulation
Washington, D.C., October 1998
The Winsor School
Virginia Wing Lecture Series
Boston, October 1998
University of California, Berkeley
The Psychological Dimensions of Technology
Berkeley, September 1998
Pegasus Communications
Conference, "Systems Thinking in Action"
Virtual Communities: A New Look at
Ourselves and Our Organizations
San Francisco, September 1998
Work/Family Directions, Inc.
Annual Client Meeting
Keynote Address The Power of a Good
Conversation
Boston, May 1998
University of Michigan, Flint
1998 Frances Wilson Thompson Critical Issues
Forum
Life on the Screen
Flint, May 1998
New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Bridging the Psychoanalytic and Computer
Cultures
New York, March 1998
New York University
Virtuality and Its Discontents
New York, March 1998
University of Southern California
Annenberg School for Communication
Who Are We On the Internet?
Los Angeles, February 1998
CSC Index
Senior Management Interchange
Competing in the Digital World
London, February 1998
New England Association of Schools and
Colleges
112th Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Readership Skills in
a Culture of Simulation
Boston, December 1997
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
Building Identity in Virtual Space
Boston, December 1997
William Alanson White Institute
Bridging the Psychoanalytic and Computer
Cultures
New York, November 1997
Cambridge Hospital
Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
The Myth of "Computer Addiction"
Cambridge, November 1997
National School Boards Association
11th Annual Technology and Learning Conference
Keynote Address Educational Challenges
in Digital Culture
Denver, November 1997
EDUCOM
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Embracing the Changing
Learning Environment
Minneapolis, October 1997
The Harvard Libraries
The Changing Culture of Information
Cambridge, October 1997
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
8th International Symposium on Electronic
Art
Keynote Address The Arts in Digital
Culture
Chicago, September 1997
Canadian Business Telecommunications
Alliance
Annual Conference
Listening to Business
Toronto, September 1997
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Ninth Annual Nicholas Mullins Memorial
Lecture
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Blacksburg, September 1997
KPMG Peat Marwick
Annual Alumni Conference
Learning and Change
Laguna Niguel, May 1997
Simmons College
Graduate School of Management
Alumnae Conference "Women and Leadership:
Pathways to Power"
Identity in Cyberspace
Boston, May 1997
CSC Index
Executive Forum "Agility and Information
Technology"
Catching the Digital Wave
Pinehurst, April 1997
American Museum of the Moving Image
Conference "Agents and Avatars"
The Psychology of Internet Avatars
New York, March 1997
Association of Computing Machinery
Special Interest Group on Human-Computer
Interaction
New Perspectives on Internet Psychology
Cambridge, March 1997
Wellesley College
Center for Learning and Teaching
Women, Learning, and Computers
Wellesley, March 1997
World Economic Forum
Digital brainstorming
Individuals, Community, and the Network
Society
Technology Malign? Danger Zones in
the Network Society
Self-identity in the Network Society
Davos, February 1997
Santa Fe Institute
Artificial Life in Popular Culture
Santa Fe, February 1997
Indiana State University
University Speaker Series
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Terre Haute, February 1997
Milia
Annual Conference 1997
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
Cannes, February 1997
New School for Social Research
Conference "Technology and the Rest of
Culture"
Computational Technologies and the
Self
New York, January 1997
Forbes
1996 Technology Symposium
Keynote Address Technology and Identity
Seattle, December 1996
Coalition for Networked Information
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Information Challenges
in the Computer Culture
San Francisco, December 1996
Women's Global Business Alliance
Conference "Women of Influence: Breaking
Boundaries and Challenging Paradigms"
Keynote Address Gender Trouble on the
Internet
Boston, November 1996
Home Savings of America
Senior Executive Meeting
Issues of Identity in Business Computing
Irwindale, November 1996
Association for Women in Computing
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Boston, November 1996
University of Pennsylvania Library
Celebration of the Invention of the ENIAC
Symposium "What's Playing on the Celestial
Jukebox: Real Knowledge in a Digital World"
Philadelphia, November 1996
International Women's Forum
Conference "Women Making History"
Panelist in session "Making History in
Cyberspace: Content Control, Gender, and Social Gaps"
Boston, October 1996
University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts and Sciences
Department of English
The New Literatures of Virtual Community
Philadelphia, October 1996
Michigan State University
Raines Colloquium
Keynote Address Transitions of Identity
in the Age of Technology
East Lansing, October 1996
Family Firm Institute
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
Philadelphia, October 1996
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Women's Forum
Gender in the Virtual World
Cambridge, October 1996
American Association of Sunday and Feature
Editors
Annual Conference
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
San Antonio, October 1996
The Master's Forum
Keynote Address The Postmodern Market
Minneapolis, September 1996
American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting
Session "Technologically Generated Communities:
Opportunities and Constraints"
The Sociology of Internet Sociologies:
Ideology, Hype, and the Politics of Displacement
New York, August 1996
Ernst & Young Center for Business
Innovation
Conference "Embracing Complexity: Exploring
the Application
of Complex Adaptive Systems to Business"
Keynote Address MUDs and Self-organization
San Francisco, July 1996
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education
Institute for Educational Management
The Educational Opportunities of Internet
Ecologies
Cambridge, July 1996
The World Times
Conference "Information Imperative: Embracing
the Invisible Revolution Reshaping Our World"
Keynote Address The Social Software
Challenge: The Personal and Psychological Dimensions of Online Interaction
Washington DC, June 1996
The American Prospect and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Conference "Educational Reform and the
New Media"
Education, Community, and Identity
Cambridge, June 1996
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
21st Century Initiative Executive Meeting
Keynote Address Building the Virtual
Corporation
Cambridge, June 1996
American Society for Information Science
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
San Diego, May 1996
Stanford University
Center for Teaching and Learning
The Internet as a New Learning Culture
Palo Alto, May 1996
The Austen Riggs Center
Parallel Lives: Rethinking Identity
Theory in the Age of the Internet
Stockbridge, May 1996
Massachusetts Computer Using Educators
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address New Educational Challenges
in the Age of the Internet
Sandwich, May 1996
Simmons College
Conference "Women's Voices"
Keynote Address Women and Computing:
Twenty Years of Change
Boston, April 1996
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program in Women's Studies
Conference "Virtue & Virtuality: A
Conference on Gender, Law, and Cyberspace"
Gender Trouble on the Internet
Cambridge, April 1996
Johns Hopkins University
School of Continuing Studies
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Baltimore, April 1996
University of Virginia
Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Charlottesville, April 1996
Brandeis University
Tillie K. Lubin Symposium "Who is she?"
Gender Play and Multiple Subjectivity
Waltham, March 1996
Cambridge Forum
Cyberidentity
Cambridge, March 1996
Council for Technology and the Individual
Conference "Technologies for the 21st
Century:
Scaling Up, Trimming Down: Models for
the Next Millennium"
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Marina del Rey, March 1996
Princeton University
Program in Women's Studies
Gender and the Net
Princeton, March 1996
Eastern Sociological Society
Annual Meeting
Session "Technological Change and Civil
Society"
Virtuality and its Discontents
Boston, March 1996
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology and Culture Forum
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
Cambridge, February 1996
New York Institute for the Humanities
Life on the Screen: Identity in the
Age of the Internet
New York, February 1996
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Annual Meeting
Session "Artificial Life as the New Frontier"
Artificial Life in Cyberspace
Baltimore, February 1996
Council of Independent Colleges
1996 President's Institute
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
Palm Beach, January 1996
Harvard University
School of Law
Sociology and Psychology of the Net
Cambridge, January 1996
American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting
Session "Culture in and Culture of: The
Embodiment of Culture in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis"
Multiple Identities in the Psychoanalytic
and Computer Cultures
Washington DC, November 1995
Advertising Research Foundation
Interactive Media Research Summit
Keynote Address Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet
New York, October 1995
Harvard University
Program on Information Resources Policy
Blurring Technologies and Identities
Cambridge, April 1995
PC Forum
Annual Meeting
Virtual Places and People
Phoenix, March 1995
Association for Computer Supported Cooperative
Work
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Identity and the Internet
Raleigh-Durham, October 1994
Society for the Social Studies of Science
Annual Meeting
Why do I Need a Real Life if My Life
is On the Internet
New Orleans, October 1994
National Research Council
Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board
Colloquium Panelist "Keeping the U.S.
Computer Industry Competitive"
Washington, D.C., June 1993
International Communication Association
Annual Conference "Constructing the Self
in a Mediated World"
Parallel Lives: Working on Identity
in Virtual Space
Washington, D.C., May 1993
Third International Conference on Cyberspace
Keynote address Constructions and Reconstructions
of Self in Virtual Reality
Austin, May 1993
Minnesota Joint Computer Conference
Annual Meeting "Linking People through
Technology"
Keynote Address The Psychology of Computer-Human
Interactions
Minneapolis, February 1993
American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting
Session "Cyborg Anthropology"
Living in the MUDs: Multiplicity and
Identity in Virtual Reality
San Francisco, December 1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conference "Popular Cultures"
Reconstructing the Self in Virtual Reality
Cambridge, October 1992
Tokai University
Hightech Art Planning (HARP)
Exposition and Symposium on Advanced Robotics
and Cyberanimism
Keynote Address Robots and the Human
Spirit
Tokyo, May 1992
Cornell University
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Computing in Universities: Project Athena
at MIT
Ithaca, April 1992
Art Futura
Conference "Global Mind"
Computers, Art, and the Culture of
Stimulation
Barcelona, March 1992
Massachusetts Corporation for Educational
Telecommunications
Keynote Address Computation and Psychology
Lexington, February 1992
Society for the Social Studies of Science
Annual Meeting
The Cultural Appropriation of Sciences
of Mind
Cambridge, November 1991
National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis
Symposium "The Influence of Culture on
Psychoanalysis: A Comparative Perspective"
Keynote Address The Cultural Appropriation
of Psychoanalysis
New York, October 1991
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conference "Kids & Computers: What's
A Parent to Do?"
Growing up with Computers
Cambridge, September 1991
Free Association Books
Conference "Psychoanalysis and the Public
Sphere"
The Cultural Appropriation of Psychoanalysis
London, November 1990
George Washington University
Association of Computing Machinery
Conference "Computers and the Quality of
Life"
Why Women Drop out of Computing
Washington, D.C., September 1990
International Computer Forum
Computers and Social Change in the
United States and Soviet Union
Moscow, June 1990
Claremont University Center and Graduate
School
Symposium "Cooperation and Competition:
Science and Technology in the 21st Century"
Towards a Pluralistic Computer Culture
Presented at the President's Forum, upon
receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters Degree
Claremont, May 1990
Harvard University, Center for Literary
and Cultural Studies
Seminar "Psychoanalysis and Culture"
The Comparative Sociology of Psychoanalytic
Cultures: Britain, France, and the United States
Cambridge, May 1990
New York University
Science, Technology and Society Faculty
Colloquium Series
Romantic Computers: A Sociologist Looks
at the PDP Revolution
New York, April 1990
Stevens Institute of Technology
Conference "Bridging the Two Cultures:
Issues of Gender and Ethnicity in the Humanities and the Sciences"
Gender, Technology, and Pluralism
Hoboken, April 1990
Society for the Social Studies of Science
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Changing the Subject
and Finding the Object: Gender, Computation, and the Sociology of the Concrete
Irvine, November 1989
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Annual Meeting
Panelist in session "Computers in Education:
Mixed Agendas and Uncertain Outcomes"
Washington, D.C., October 1989
University of Cambridge
Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis
Cambridge, May 1989
The Freud Museum
Inaugural Conference
Keynote Address Psychoanalytic Movements
vs. Psychoanalytic Cultures
London, May 1989
University of Bath
Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy
Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence:
Changes for the Social Studies of Science
Bath, April 1989
University of York
Department of Sociology
Connectionism and Social Theory
York, March 1989
Brunel University
Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture
and Technology
Project Athena at MIT
Brunel, February 1989
University of London
Institute of Education
Cognitive Styles and Computer Styles
London, February 1989
University of Sussex
Department of Cognitive Sciences
'Emergent' Schools of Artificial Intelligence:
A New Romanticism
Sussex, January 1989
University of Oxford
Program in Human Sciences
Women and Computers
Oxford, December 1988
University of London
Medical Research Council
Computers and Children's Notions of
Life
London, November 1988
Society for Social Studies of Science
Annual Meeting
Ethnographic Approaches to Artificial
Intelligence
Amsterdam, November 1988
United States Information Agency
Exhibition and Conference "Information
USA"
Computers and Children USA/USSR
Moscow, June 1987
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities and Program
in the History of Science and Technology
Conference "Analyzing the Inchoate: Complex
Interrelations in the Humanities and Sciences"
Computer Culture and Psychoanalytic
Culture
Ithaca, April 1987
Stanford University
Centennial Conference "Humans, Animals,
Machines: Boundaries and Projections"
A New Romantic Reaction: The Computer
as Precipitant of Anti-Mechanistic Definitions of the Human
Palo Alto, April 1987
American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Computers and Contemporary
Psychiatry
Chicago, March 1987
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and
Institute
Scientific Meeting
What Lacan Was Trying To Tell Us
Boston, February 1987
Gannett Center
Conference "The Cost of Technology: Information,
Prosperity and Information Poverty"
Computers and the Human Spirit
New York, November 1986
Harvard University
350th Anniversary Symposium "The Changing
Nature of Knowledge and Creativity"
The Computer as a Medium of Personal
Expression
Cambridge, September 1986
American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting
Computer Holding Power: Sociological
and Psychological Factors
New York, September 1986
New England Council of Child Psychiatry
Annual Meeting
Keynote Address Computers and Children
Boston, June 1986
World Congress on Education and Technology
Keynote Address The Second Self: Computers
and the Human Spirit
Vancouver, May 1986
Friends of the Boston Psychoanalytic
Society
The Sociology of Sciences of Mind:
Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence
Boston, April 1986
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
The Psychological Impact of Computer
Technology
New York, April 1986
Boston Fulbright Association
The Challenge of Education in the Computer
Culture
Boston, April 1986
Cambridge Forum
Computers and Human Values
Presented upon receiving the Melcher Award
Cambridge, December 1985
Apple Computer Corporation
World Congress
Keynote Address Personal Computers and
Personal Expression
San Francisco, November 1985
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weisner Center for Art, Media, and Technology
Inaugural Symposium
The Computer as a Psychologically Expressive
Medium
Cambridge, October 1985
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Annual Meeting
Computer Culture as Psychological Culture
Los Angeles, May 1985
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Annual Meeting
Growing Up With Computers
Session "Research on Mind and Media"
Los Angeles, May 1985
New York University, Media Ecology Program
Semi-Annual Conference
Keynote Address The Psychology of Human-Computer
Interactions
New York, April 1985
Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development
Annual Conference
Keynote Address Computers and the Developing
Child
Chicago, March 1985
Eastern Sociological Meeting
Annual Meeting
Session "Author Meets Critic"
Using the Sociology of Knowledge to
Study the Computer Culture
Philadelphia, March 1985
IBM Systems Research Institute
Computers and Management Psychology
New York, March 1985
Association for Women and Computing
Annual Convention
Keynote Speaker Gender and Technology
Minneapolis, March 1985
Dartmouth College
Rockefeller Forum Lecture Series
Computers in Higher Education
Hanover, February 1985
Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Sidney Harmon Lecture Series
The Impact of Computers on Individuals
and Organizations
Cambridge, February 1985
University of Illinois
Center for Advanced Study
George A. Miller Lecture Series
Computers in Higher Education
Urbana, February 1985
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Sociology
Computer Culture and the Sociology of
Science
Philadelphia, February 1985
University of Michigan
Center for Continuing Education of Women
Symposium "Women's Lives in the Information
Society"
Keynote Address Gender and Computation
Ann Arbor, March 1985
Cambridge Forum
The Second
Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
Cambridge, December 1984
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Corporation
Colloquium "Technology, Social Issues,
and Public Policy"
The Social
Impact of Computing
Cambridge, December 1984
The City University of New York
Lecture Series "Minds and Other Matters:
Machine-Based Approximations of Cognition and Languages"
Computer Metaphors
and Models of Mind
New York, December 1984
United Technologies
Seminar "Computer in Society"
Computers
in Business
West Palm Beach, November 1984
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Computers
as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
Boston, November 1984
EDUCOM
Annual Meeting
Keynote Speaker Computers in Education
Cambridge, November 1984
Digital Equipment Corporation
Office Automation Council
Keynote Speaker Computers in the Classroom
Boston, October 1984
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Session "Computers in Everyday Life"
Computers
in Everyday life: Personal Computer Owners
New York, May 1984
Eastern Sociological Society
Annual Meeting
Chair and Organizer of Session "The Social
Construction of the Computer"
Computer Metaphors
and Models of the Mind
Boston, March 1984
Boston University
Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science
Computers
and a New Philosophy in Everyday Life
Boston, February 1984
New York Academy of Sciences
Conference "Computer Culture: The Scientific,
Intellectual, and Social Impact of the Computer"
Children and
Computers: The First Generation
New York, December 1983
New York Freudian Society
Jacques Lacan
New York, December 1982
Columbia University
Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science
The Psychological Impact of Computer Use
New York, October 1982
Swedish Council for Coordination and Planning of Research
Conference "The Computer as Tool"
The Computer as Rorschach
Stockholm, June 1981
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Inaugural Symposium
Science and the Larger Culture: The Role
of the Object
Cambridge, January 1981
International Federation of Information Processors, Annual Meeting
The Subjective Computer: A Study of Home
Computing Use
Tokyo, September 1980
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annual Meeting
Personal Computers and Personal Meanings
San Francisco, January 1980
American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting
The Subjective Side of Computation
Boston, August 1979
American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting
The Social Roots of Psychoanalytic Cultures
Chicago, September 1977
International Society of the Sociology of Knowledge
Annual Meeting
The Changing Social Image of Psychoanalysis
in France: Survey Results
New York, April 1976
Brandeis University
Department of Sociology
Psychoanalysis as Subversive Science
Waltham, December 1976
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
Jacques Lacan: Inventing a French Freud
Princeton, April 1975
American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting
French Sociology and the Events of May-June
1968: The Microcosm and Its Field
New York, September 1972