Sherry Turkle Audio & Video

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.

Technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them....

MIT professor Sherry Turkle discusses her book, "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other," presented by Harvard Book Store.

Consider Facebook—it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness.

In today's technologically advanced society, smartphones make communication quicker and more convenient than ever, but this ease of communication does not come without consequences.

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.

MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work