Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together”: Disturbing. Compelling. Powerful. In today’s “always on” world, where conversations too often consist of exchanges of oddly spelled cellphone texts or “tweets” of 140 ...

Sherry Turkle would prefer not to. “My publisher said, ‘Look, you have to tweet, you have to force yourself, you have to learn how to do that!'” Her publisher being the one that just released The ...

GRAND RAPIDS — These days, everybody and their brother carries a mobile device allowing them to text a friend, “tweet the deets” or post their location for the world to see. For Massachusetts ...

“From a very young age, I saw myself as my life’s detective,” Sherry Turkle writes in the introduction to her memoir, “The Empathy Diaries” (out now). While I suspect that is true of many people — ...

I have written about how technology’s creation illuminates our encouraging spiritual restlessness. How we engage with some technologies reveals a more troubling side. MIT professor Sherry Turkle’s ...

Decades before the birth of the Internet, before texting and smartphones and Skype, before students lugged laptops to classrooms and mothers unpacked iPads on airplanes, Sherry Turkle was studying how ...

Smartphones are ruining relationships. If you don’t agree, read Sherry Turkle’s “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital” Age and you’ll begin to see the corrosive impact on human ...

In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle examines our proclivity for robots, smart phones and social networks, and though far from ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle shares her new research into "artificial intimacy"—the emotional connections humans form with chatbots... and the... MIT sociologist ...

If Neil deGrasse Tyson from Cosmos has become the bard of deep time, then Sherry Turkle is the bard of the present moment. Her stories, most recently Alone Together, tell us what our emerging ...