Sherry Turkle CV

# Sherry Turkle

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
sturkle@media.mit.edu

Education

Harvard University

1976 | Ph.D., Sociology andPersonalityPsychology
| 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

| 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

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

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)

2000 | Social Science Research Council Advisory Board on Culture, Creativity, and 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-present | 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, 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

"Spinning Technology." In Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change, Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (eds.). Forthcoming.

"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 Donald Schön and Martin Rein, Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies, 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.

"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)

Institute for Advanced Study
School of Social Science
Lecture series "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 1994

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 1994

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
Distin