Sherry Turkle - Interviews and Profiles Sherry Turkle received her Bachelors of Arts summa cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology from Harvard University. Media appearances in which Sherry Turkle discusses her new book, Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other (NY: Basic Books, January 2011), as well as her research in general : The Atlantic Magazine – “Saving the Lost Art of Conversation: In a fast-paced digital age, an MIT psychologist tries to slow us down” (January/February 2014). Moyers & Company (PBS) – "Sherry Turkle on Being Alone Together" (October 18, 2013). On Point with Ted Ashbrook (NPR) – “The Programmable World” (June 4, 2013). CBS This Morning, with Charlie Rose and Gayle King – “More Wired, Less Connected: Is Your Smart Phone Making You Lonely?” TED Radio Hour (NPR) – “Are We Plugged-In, Connected, but Alone?” CBS News -- "Texting: Can we pull the plug on our obsession?" "Programmed for Love," Jeffrey R.
What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. There has been much discussion about the value of the “creative pause” – a state described as “the shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.” However, despite the incredible power and potential of sacred spaces, they are quickly becoming extinct. Why do we crave distraction over downtime? Why do we give up our sacred space so easily? But this desperate need for constant connection and stimulation is not a modern problem. We are depriving ourselves of every opportunity for disconnection. So what’s the solution? Soon enough, planes, trains, subways, and, yes, showers will offer the option of staying connected. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
An Introduction to Networks in the Global Village NetLab is an interdisciplinary scholarly network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks. Centered at the University of Toronto, NetLab members have come from across Canada and the United States as well as from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. NetLab has developed since 2000 from an informal network of collaborators into a far-flung virtual laboratory. Where to find NetLab: NetLab43.665016, -79.399325NetLabUniversity of TorontoiSchool140 St. Three Technologies That Changed Our Brains | Nicholas Carr With rendition switcher Question: What are some technologies, prior to the Internet, that have radically reshaped the way our brains work? Nicholas Carr: I think that if you look across the entire world of tools and technologies, what you see is that there are different categories. One category is what I call intellectual technologies. And before the map came along people understood where they were and where they were going purely through their sensory perceptions, through what they saw, also what they hear and so forth. And I think you see a similar thing when the mechanical clock comes around. So here again, we see an intellectual technology, that beyond its practical uses really changed in a kind of fundamental way, I think, the way people think. At about the same time, a little after the arrival of the mechanical clock, we saw the introduction of the printing press and hence printed books, which replaced handwritten books.
Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) These hypotheses imply great richness in the new evolutionary spaces opened by progressing from Stage 3 to Stage 4. We would like to study the hypotheses further, examining their possible manifestations in our experience, ways of demonstrating their validity, and possible deductions relative to going to Stage 4. In search of some simple ways to determine what the Neo-Whorfian hypothesis might imply, we could imagine some relatively straightforward means of increasing our external symbol-manipulation capability and try to picture the consequent changes that could evolve in our language and methods of thinking. Actually, it turned out to be simpler to invert the problem and consider a change that would reduce our capability for external symbol manipulation. How would our civilization have matured if this had been the only manual means for us to use in graphical manipulation of symbols? Fig. 2: Experimental Results of Tying a Brick to a Pencil to "De-Augment" the Individual 5. a. 1) General
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image Is your head bleeding? Is your heart bleeding? Here's my thought (and, I say this with full disclosure that I am no IT expert and have limited knowledge of the hacking space beyond a personal interest in better understanding technology - peace and love... peace and love...), but the process of text-based passwords needs to be tossed out. Why this is so important to talk about for marketers? The brands that win are the brands that can be trusted. It's like a full time job to manage this stuff, isn't it? It gets worse. Blame the passwords. These systems were built in a such a way that invites problems and challenges. Some thoughts on a better way to connect. I read with interest The Globe And Mail article published yesterday, Fed up with passwords? Organic solutions to technical challenges. In short, we need to use the small things that make us individuals unique from one another as the way in which to secure the content, flow and information we connect with. By Mitch Joel
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies', Ariadne Issue 56 In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer. The Tension between Web 2.0 and Education So my primary interest is to focus on the educational aspects of new technologies and in particular what might be appropriate 'schema' for describing the ways in which technologies are being used. Realigning New Technologies to Pedagogy A Pedagogical Framework for Mapping Tools in Use
Blog » The Social Marketplace on Oodle & Facebook Posted by Oodle Blog on December 15th, 2010 Today we rolled out a bunch of new functionality both on Facebook and Oodle — to make the experience into a true social marketplace. To date, most of the conversation around social commerce has revolved around social shopping. Anonymous online transactions in traditional classifieds marketplaces lend themselves to bad behavior — from serious fraud and safety issues to flakey actions such as no-show meetings. Facebook Connect hooks a user’s real identity to the listings they post.When someone responds to a listing via email the other party sees who they are via their public Facebook profile.Users see how they are connected to each other: through friends, mutual friends or a shared network (e.g., went to the same school, work in the same company).We’re also now more clearly delineating between postings posted directly on Marketplace (which have a Facebook identity associated) and aggregated classifieds listings found elsewhere on the Internet.