MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has studied the relationship between people and technology for 30 years, spoke at the Berkeley Cener for New Media last night. Jen Schradie, a Berkeley graduate student and doctoral candidate, tweeted a summary of the talk.
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RT @STurkle: Technology is the Architect of Our Intimacies. I am speaking tonight at Berkeley Center for New Media. http://t.co/Oq78FFH |
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@sturkle now speaking at #calnewmedia standing room only – Colbert told her "why don’t you teach at the Mass. Institute of Friendship" |
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@cturkle : At MIT in 1977, she went to a retreat entitled, "How to keep computers busy," @calnewmedia Ah, the irony. |
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@sturkle at MIT retreat in 1977: only academics would write on a computer. One suggestion: a calendar (dismissed) All agreed on games |
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@sturkle @calnewmedia: We have become computer’s killer ap |
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@sturkle in talking about the evolution of computers: "We have become the killer app" @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle re: computers and technology: No such thing as just a tool. @calnewmedia |
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2 things happened that made @sturkle more cautionary w/ tech in 1995: socialable robotics and mobile connectivity revolution @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: I’m very prorobot I’m not a luddite. I love robots. What I don’t like in a robot is Take care of me and I’ll love you @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: identity exploring online Life on the Screen was a bit naive b/c assumed on and off in virtual/real wrld @calnewmedia. |
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@sturkle: My model had not taken into account the "always on culture." @calnewmedia |
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Re: Life on the Screen – @sturkle: I had not taken seriously how we could bail out of the physical /real anytime we wanted to. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle. Just b/c we grow up with the Internet doesn’t mean the Internet is all grown up. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: Texting at funerals is major. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: Parents complain about kids texting at the dinner table but it’s really parents who are doing it. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle. We’d rather text than hide. It’s a technology we can hide. Online we can be who we want to be. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: We don’t allow ourselves the time to explain complicated problems. We train ourselves to answer simpler questions. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: People measure success by e-mails, calls, texts answered. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: We tell our children that world is inc. complex but we have created a com. medium that reduces time to sit & think. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: We have gone from "I have a feeling, I want to make a call" to "I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text." @calnewmedia WOW |
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What’s not being cultivated with new media is the ability to being alone to gather oneself. @calnewmedia |
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@sturkle: What’s not being cultivated with new media is the ability to be alone to gather oneself. @calnewmedia |
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