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Reclaiming Conversation with Sherry Turkle

Reclaiming Conversation with Sherry Turkle

Photo Credit: Peter Urban

Your host Rabbi Rami talks to Sherry Turkle about her new book Reclaiming Conversation in the Digital Age. A review of the book can be found in September/October 2015 issue of Spirituality & Health magazine.

Sherry Turkle has spent the last 30 years studying the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. A licensed clinical psychologist, she is the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Turkle is the author five books and three edited collections, including a trilogy of three landmark studies on our relationship with digital culture: The Second Self, Life on the Screen and most recently, Alone Together.

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