<!DOCTYPE doctype PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"><html><head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) [Netscape]"><title>author-bio.html</title>
   
<!--This file created 3/9/00 2:03 PM by Claris Home Page version 3.0--></head>

<body bgcolor="#ccccff"><x-claris-window top="81" bottom="729" left="151" right="825">
<x-claris-remotesave server="ftp.dialup.mit.edu" user="sophiew" dir="" file="">
<x-claris-tagview mode="minimal">
<!--body background="Lace_Curtain-1.JPG"-->

</x-claris-tagview></x-claris-remotesave></x-claris-window><table border="0">
<tbody><tr>
<td width="3%"></td>

<td width="90%"><img src="Sherrypicture.jpeg" alt="Photo of Sherry Turkle" x-claris-useimagewidth="" x-claris-useimageheight="" height="196" width="160" align="bottom">
<p><font size="-2">author photo by Steven Klein</font>
</p><p></p></td>

<td width="7%"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="3%"></td>

<td width="90%"><i><font size="+2">Sherry Turkle</font></i>
<p><font size="+2">Biography</font>
</p><p><font size="+1">
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauz&eacute; Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.  Dr. Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers.  She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (Basic Books, 1978; MIT Press paper, 1981; second revised edition, Guilford Press, 1992);The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon and Schuster, 1984; Touchstone paper, 1985; second revised edition, MIT Press, forthcoming); and most recently, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, November 1995; Touchstone paperback, 1997) in which she explores the psychology of computer-mediated communication.  Dr. Turkle recently explored the question of "Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture" when she delivered the annual Freud lecture in Vienna in May 2002; she leads a large research project on the psychological impact of computational objects as they become increasingly "relational" artifacts.  Dr. Turkle is studying a range of objects, including "affective" computer programs, humanoid robots, games that simulate people, creatures and societies, and robotic dolls and pets, currently being marketed to children and the elderly.  Her other current research project in the area of "things and thinking" is an NSF-funded study of "Virtuality and its Discontents" which looks at the impact of using screens and simulation technologies on a range of professions, from architecture to medicine.  Dr. Turkle is currently completing a book which looks at evolving relationships between people and technologies as well as their implications, emotional, intellectual, and ethical.
<br>
<br>
</p><p>Return to <a href="http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/">Sherry Turkle's
Home Page.</a></p></td>

<td width="7%"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="3%"></td>

<td width="90%"></td>

<td width="7%"></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

</body></html>

