Sherry Turkle
Social scientist and clinical psychologist
Sherry Turkle is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a licensed clinical psychologist who studies how people relate to technology.
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American Born 1948 in New York City, United States
About Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle holds the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé professorship in the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned a doctorate in sociology and personality psychology at Harvard University, and she is also a licensed clinical psychologist. She began studying how people relate to technology in the early personal computer era of the late 1970s. In 2001 she founded the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her books include Alone Together and Reclaiming Conversation, both part of her work on digital culture. Her memoir The Empathy Diaries appeared in 2021.