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Alone Together
Social media saturates hundreds of millions of lives. Twitter claims more than 140 million users; Facebook expects to reach 1 billion total users in 2012. How has this rapid increase in virtual technology affected our offline relationships? Has the way we engage others face to face shifted as a result of these new media? MIT Professor and New York Times bestselling author Sherry Turkle explores how modern tools for human interaction promises closeness but often fails to deliver.
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She has been studying our changing relationships with digital culture for over three decades, charting how mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics are changing our work, families, and identity. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the social and psychological effects of technology for CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the BBC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline, Frontline, and 20/20.
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