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The empathy diaries: Thinking about thinking about technology and self
29 September 2022, 5:30 pm鈥�6:30 pm
Join this event to hear Sherry Turkle reflect on how her work and life drew together to inspire a career that felt more like a calling to explore technology.
This event is free.
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For the 2022 Richard Noss Lecture, Sherry Turkle will discuss her latest book The Empathy Diaries: A Memoire. In the book, Turkle brings together her decades-long, path-breaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics, which has provided an ethnography of our digital world and shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in聽technology, education and social sciences.
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About the Speakers
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauz茅 Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT
She writes on the 鈥渟ubjective side鈥� of people鈥檚 relationships with technology, especially computers, and is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. Her latest book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2021), ties together her personal story with her ground-breaking research.
Professor Allison Littlejohn
Professor and Director at 香港六合彩 Knowledge Lab
Her work spans the energy, health, finance, education and international development sectors across various countries Read more about Allison鈥檚 work.
Professor Dame Celia Hoyles
Chair of Mathematics Education at IOE