Curriculum Vitae
Program in Science, Technology, and
Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E51-296C
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-4068
Fax: (617) 258-8118
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Harvard University
| 1976 | Ph.D., Sociology andPersonalityPsychology |
| 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
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2000-present | Director, Initiative on Technology and Self |
| 1999-present | Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor |
| 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 |
| 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 | Named one of ABC News.com's Top Ten Wired Women |
| 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 | Social Science
Research Council
Advisory Board on Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology |
| 2000 | MacArthur Foundation |
| Committee on Information Technology | |
| 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 |
| 1997-2000 | 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, forthcoming.
(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 with 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
"E-Futures and E-Personae." In Designing for a Digital World, Neil Leach (ed.) London; John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
"'Spinning' Technology." In Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change, Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (eds.). Forthcoming 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
"Elsevier's International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, s.v., "psychology of virtual reality," and "computer/human interface." Oxford: Pergamon Press, forthcoming.
"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, no. 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,no. 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.
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 Domain: 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
Comput