The empathy diaries: Thinking about thinking about technology and self
Join this event to hear Sherry Turkle reflect on how her work and life drew together to inspire a career that felt more like a calling to explore technology.
The empathy diaries: Thinking about thinking about technology and self
29 Sep 2022, 17:30 – 18:30
For the 2022 Richard Noss Lecture, Sherry Turkle will discuss her latest book The Empathy Diaries: A Memoire. In the book, Turkle brings together her decades-long, path-breaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics, which has provided an ethnography of our digital world and shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in technology, education and social sciences.
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Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT
She writes on the “subjective side” of people’s relationships with technology, especially computers, and is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. Her latest book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2021), ties together her personal story with her ground-breaking research.
Her work spans the energy, health, finance, education and international development sectors across various countries Read more about Allison’s work.
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