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Born 19?? in ?, ?, ?.
"Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Sociology from Harvard University. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1978) and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984). She lives in Boston, Massachusetts." [publisher's bumpf, Life on the Screen , UK hbk, 1996]
"In the early to mid-1970s, I studied the impact of psychoanalytic ideas on people's everyday lives....
"In the late 1970s to early 1980s, greatly influenced by the culture of MIT, I turned to the study of the appropriation of ideas surrounding technical artifacts....
"...For many years, Seymour Papert and I worked together on the way computers encourage pluralistic ways of knowing." --Sherry Turkle (in Life on the Screen , 1995).
Daughter: Rebecca.
"In the late 1960s, I studied history and political theory in Paris." --Sherry Turkle (in Life on the Screen , 1995).
"My training as a social scientist included graduate work in sociology, anthropology, and personality psychology; I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. For nearly twenty years I have taught social sciences at MIT and have practiced as a psychotherapist for more than fifteen....
Sherry Turkle CV
(lists her academic appointments, clinical training, awards and fellowships, etc... on her website at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sherry Turkle Homepage
(this is her website at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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