Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating and yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. How does this flight from conversation undermine our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why does reclaiming face-to-face conversation help us regain lost ground?
Speaker Details
SHERRY TURKLE has spent the last 30 years studying the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. A licensed clinical psychologist, she is the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Turkle is the author five books and three edited collections, including a trilogy of three landmark studies on our relationship with digital culture: The Second Self, Life on the Screen and most recently, Alone Together. A recipient of a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, she is a featured media commentator. She is a recipient of a Harvard Centennial Medal and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Sherry Turkle
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- MIT
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