Books by Sherry Turkle
“This is a really beautiful collection of essays about cherished objects that Sherry Turkle edited and framed with critical theory. Turkle investigates and celebrates the attachment that we have to objects. The relationships with objects isn’t between one person and one thing. There are all these human relationships and stories that are entangled in our attachment to objects.” Read more...
How To Use Technology And Not Be Used By It: A Psychologist’s Reading List
Margaret Morris, Psychologist
Life on the Screen
by Sherry Turkle
Turkle is a brilliant observer of the online world, and what makes the Net incredibly interesting is that it was never intended to be a social medium. They created this kind of pipeline for trading hard data between scientists and sharing computer resources in the military and for some reason we insane people decide to start pouring other things down that pipeline, like, for example, our social lives.
Life on the Screen
by Sherry Turkle
What is emerging, Turkle argues, is a new sense of identity, one which is de-centred and multiple. She describes the trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people's experience of virtual environments.
Interviews where books by Sherry Turkle were recommended
The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski
‘There was a research study done in the 1960s that identified that people will open themselves up to a stranger on a train and tell them deep personal information they would never tell their closest friends, partially because they have this sense that they can confess.’
Lev Grossman recommends the best books on the World Wide Web
The book critic and technology columnist for Time magazine says there’s a level on which the Internet is a mass tool for pacification. It allows people to play out their lives in a fantasy context, which is very politically unthreatening. He picks the best books on the World Wide Web.
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The Saturated Self
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The Stories We Live By
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett -
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick -
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
by Sherry Turkle
How To Use Technology And Not Be Used By It: A Psychologist’s Reading List, recommended by Margaret Morris
How To Use Technology And Not Be Used By It: A Psychologist’s Reading List, recommended by Margaret Morris
Many people are now worried about the impact of tech devices and social media on our brains—and believe they could be harmful to our psychological wellbeing. Psychologist Margaret Morris, author of Left to Our Own Devices, argues for a more nuanced approach and talks us through the books that shaped her own approach to technology.
