Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society Director, Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1978, revised 1992, and paperback 1981) and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984, paperback 1985; revised edition forthcoming). Her most recent book, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995, paperback 1997) explores the psychology of computer-mediated communication on the Internet. Turkle's current research examines the psychological impact of computational objects as they become increasingly "relational" artifacts. She is studying a range of objects, from "affective computers" to robotic dolls and pets. Back to the Full Schedule.