Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle Curriculum Vitae 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 Education Harvard University
1976 | Ph.D., Sociology and Personality Psychology
| Dissertation: "Psychoanalysis and Society: The Emergence of French Freud"
1973 | M.A., Sociology
University of Chicago
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
Clinical Affiliations
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
Academic Committees Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Other Professional Activities (Partial Listing)
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
PUBLICATIONS 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 "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance," edited by Mihail C. Roco and William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, June 2002. "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 "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. "Computer Games as Evocative Objects: From Projective Screens to Relational Artifacts." Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Joost Raessens, and Jeffrey Goldstein (eds.), forthcoming. "'Spinning' Technology." In Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change,Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (eds.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 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, 2004. "Sociable Technologies." Frontiers of Nano-Bio-Information Technologies, Sage, forthcoming, 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, 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. Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (Partial Listing) 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