Sherry Turkle Libri

Viviamo in un mondo che sempre piú sacrifica i piaceri e i benefici della conversazione sull'altare delle tecnologie digitali. Parliamo con un amico, ma nel frattempo diamo piú di un'occhiata allo smartphone, e spesso i nostri figli si lagnano se non hanno tra le mani un dispositivo elettronico. Viviamo costantemente in un altrove digitale. Ma per capire chi siamo, per comprendere appieno il mondo che ci circonda, per crescere, per amare ed essere amati, dobbiamo saper conversare. La perdita della capacità di parlare < > con gli altri - con empatia, imparando nel contempo a sopportare solitudine e inquietudini - rischia di ridurre le nostre capacità di riflessione e concentrazione, portandoci, nei casi estremi, a stati di dissociazione psichica e cognitiva. In questo libro, frutto di anni di interviste e di indagini sul campo, Sherry Turkle, < >, sottolinea le insidie e gli effetti delle appendici tecnologiche che ci circondano nella società e nella nostra vita quotidiana, per far sí che ognuno ridiventi padrone di se stesso, senza farsene acriticamente dominare

Argues that today's digital culture is undermining relationships, creativity, and productivity, and pushes for the return of face-to-face interaction among people

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together , Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections. The Empathy Diaries captures all this in rich detail--and offers a masterclass in finding meaning through life's work."-- Provided by publisher

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together , Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections. The Empathy Diaries captures all this in rich detail--and offers a masterclass in finding meaning through life's work."-- Provided by publisher

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle explores how our retreat from conversation undermines relationships, creativity, and productivity, emphasizing the need to reclaim face-to-face dialogue. In a world dominated by constant communication, we have sacrificed meaningful conversation for superficial connection. With over thirty years of experience studying digital culture, Turkle highlights a troubling trend: whether at work, home, or in politics, we often avoid direct conversation, opting instead for texts and emails that allow us to hide from genuine interaction. This shift has led to silent dinner tables and friends struggling to engage while distracted by their phones. At work, reliance on screens diminishes productivity, as informal conversations boost commitment and collaboration. Online, we tend to share only agreeable opinions, avoiding the real conflicts necessary for public discourse. Turkle argues that the essential conversations of solitude and self-reflection are endangered, as we increasingly depend on others for our self-worth, which diminishes our empathy and relational capacity. The consequences of this flight from conversation are evident: it jeopardizes democracy, business success, and personal connections. However, there is hope. Based on five years of research, Turkle asserts that we can reclaim conversation, the most humanizing act, which can address our modern challenges and foster empathy, friendship, and

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 connection leads to a new solitude.

Argues that social-networking sites, companion robots and other technology are fueling disturbing levels of isolation and are causing humans to mistake digital communication for actual human connection. By the author of Simulations and Its Discontents.

For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditions of listening--that of the memoirist, the clinician, and the ethnographer. Each informs the others to compose an inner history of devices.We read about objects ranging from cell phones and video poker to prosthetic eyes, from Web sites and television to dialysis machines. In an introductory essay, Turkle makes the case for an "intimate ethnography" that challenges conventional wisdom. One personal computer owner tells Turkle: "This computer means everything to me. It's where I put my hope." Turkle explains that she began that conversation thinking she would learn how people put computers to work. By its end, her question has changed: "What was there about personal computers that offered such deep connection? What did a computer have that offered hope?"The Inner History of Devices teaches us to listen for the answer. In the memoirs, ethnographies, and clinical cases collected in this volume, we read about an American student who comes to terms with her conflicting identities as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan ("Tokyo sat trapped inside it"); a troubled patient who uses email both to criticize her therapist and to be reassured by her; a compulsive gambler who does not want to win steadily at video poker because a pattern of losing and winning keeps her more connected to the body of the machine. In these writings, we hear untold stories. We learn that received wisdom never goes far enough.

-Unsere Gesellschaft postuliert bis heute den in sich zentrierten Menschen mit einer klar erkennbaren Persönlichkeit, einem Wesen, einem Charakter. Das entspricht nicht unserer Natur. Das Internet bietet jede Menge Selbsterfahrung, und eine wichtige Einsicht ist: Ich bin viele.-