Att föra ett samtal mellan fyra ögon är det mest mänskliga – och mest förmänskligande – av allt vi gör. Genom att skänka varandra vår fulla uppmärksamhet lär vi oss att lyssna. Det är då vi utvecklar vår förmåga till empati. Det är då vi…
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless…
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity--and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological unive…
Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford Falcon, an apple, a mummy in a museum, and other "…
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking…
Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations."This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start…
'Dynasty 1991', provides a portrayal of the last years of Lacan's life and the events that unfolded in the years following his death in 1981.
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on t…
A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our…
"Life on the Screen" is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relatio…
"Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humour, Turkle surveys the front lines…
