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A stranger among the screen tribes of Mac and Microsoft
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[Globe and Mail] - As Margaret Mead was to the aboriginal tribes of the South Pacific, so Sherry Turkle is to the screen tribes of Mac and Microsoft. In this, her latest effort at anthropological reporting and analysis, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Turkle
MIT Psychology Professor Talks About New Book
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[Harvard Crimson] - At a gathering at the Barker Center yesterday, MIT Psychology Professor Sherry Turkle—whose work has focused on the psychological impact of technology—said that despite technology's potential to bring society
Google News: The future of books
[Observer Online] - MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle agrees in her recent book, "Alone Together." She argues that the culture of the novel is dying, with harmful societal consequences. She points to studies that reveal a startling lack of empathy among modern college
When it's important, Bill Clinton says it by phone
www.standard.co.uk
[This is London] - In a new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle, a professor and psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writes that adolescents hate the phone. One 16-year-old told her that
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