{"id":583271,"date":"2010-05-28T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=48815"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:26:11","slug":"turkle-talks-technology-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583271","title":{"rendered":"Turkle talks technology, intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,\u201d explained Massachusetts of Technology Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/%7Esturkle\/\">Sherry Turkle<\/a> to an engrossed audience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Extension School<\/a>. The event, \u201cThe Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,\u201d was the concluding public event of the School\u2019s yearlong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/centennial\/\">centennial<\/a> celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude,\u201d she said. \u201cTeenagers avoid the telephone, fearful that it reveals too much. Besides, it takes too long; they would rather text than talk. Adults, too, choose keyboards over the human voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tethered to technology, we are shaken when the unplugged world does not signify or satisfy. \u201cAfter an evening of avatar-to-avatar talk in a networked game, we feel \u2014 at one moment \u2014 in possession of a full social life, and in the next, curiously isolated in tenuous complicity with strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this thought-provoking lecture, Turkle, who is founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, shared her observations on the significant impact technology has had on our personal lives \u2014 on our children, our families, and our notions of privacy, and how it has offered us less than positive substitutes for direct face-to-face connection with people in a world of machine-mediated relationships on networked devices.<\/p>\n<p>The May 14 lecture was based on Turkle\u2019s new book, \u201cAlone Together: Technology and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude,\u201d due for release by Basic Books in January 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,\u201d explained Massachusetts of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience at the Harvard University Extension School. The event, \u201cThe Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,\u201d was the concluding public event of the School\u2019s yearlong centennial celebration. \u201cAs we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}