Opening Keynote
Campus Technology 2010 Keynotes
Opening Keynote
Tuesday, July 20, 8:30 - 9:45 AM
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology and
Director, Initiative of Technology and Self Program in Science, Technology and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology As The Architect of Self: Implications for Higher Education
With a special focus on our evolving and technology-infused higher education environments, Turkle will consider how contemporary digital connectivity is changing the nature of the ‘self,’ including our ‘selves’ in academia. What are the deeper implications of changes in our students, especially those whose generation has grown up “tethered” to connectivity devices and in a new regime of privacy. Now that we know the challenges for teaching and research with digital communications, are we living the lives as educators that we want to live? In the past, Turkle has argued that computation brought with it a new reflective space – a “second self.” The metaphor, she insists, does not go far enough. Now there is a new state of the self, itself.
Bio
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT, and the founder (2001) and current director of the “new” MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts. Professor Turkle is the author of numerous published works, including Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit; and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20.