Podcast Episodes featuring Sherry Turkle

Is technology killing empathy? With Sherry Turkle, PhD

Speaking of Psychology - May 04, 2022 10:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 676 ratings
Over the past couple of decades, our devices have become our constant companions. More and more, we live in a digital, virtual world. Dr. Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, discusses how digital communication has affected our ability ...

186 | Sherry Turkle on How Technology Affects Our Humanity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - February 28, 2022 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are with a variety of interconnected devices. There are obvious benefits to this — it lets us text our friends, listen to podcasts, and not get lost in strange cities. ...

Identity in a Cyber World with Sherry Turkle - Conversations with History

Conversations with History (Audio) - February 26, 2019 21:00 - 55 minutes
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey. In the conversation topics covered included her formative experiences, her education, and the evolution o...

Identity in a Cyber World with Sherry Turkle - Conversations with History

Conversations with History (Video) - February 26, 2019 21:00 - 55 minutes - Video
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey. In the conversation topics covered included her formative experiences, her education, and the evolution o...

Identity in a Cyber World with Sherry Turkle - Conversations with History

Conversations with History (Audio) - February 26, 2019 21:00 - 55 minutes
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT for a discussion of her intellectual odyssey. In the conversation topics covered included her formative experiences, her education, and the evolution o...

Sherry Turkle on How We're Losing Touch With One Another and What We Can Do About It

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - February 26, 2019 02:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
Sherry Turkle is an expert on both our cultural and personal well-being. She's a professor at MIT, an author, a licensed clinical psychologist, and someone who's deeply concerned about how people connect and communicate. In this conversation with Alan Alda, Sherry shares her concerns about mobil...

Nancy Drew and the Mystery of Social Interactions with Best-Selling Author Sherry Turkle

Truth or Dare: The Podcast That Boosts Your Social Health - February 14, 2017 17:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This episode's featured guest is clinical psychologist and author Sherry Turkle who founded the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Sherry has spent the last 30 years studying the psychology behind people's relationship with technology. She's written two well-known books that explore these to...

Sherry Turkle — Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology

On Being with Krista Tippett - November 15, 2012 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, is full of usable ideas — from how to declare email bankrup...

[Unedited] Sherry Turkle with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - November 15, 2012 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, is full of usable ideas — from how to declare email bankrup...