Just a reminder to start posting questions based on the readings from Laura Portwood-Stacer (links on the Resources page).
Since we’ve gotten comments to work, I’d like to suggest posting these questions as comments to this post below. Does …
SF and Predictive Analytics
Turkle’s Moralism
I try always to be a generous reader. There is much to be gained by reading with the grain rather than against it, as we are taught to do in academia. However, I found myself frequently exasperated by Sherry Turkle’s …
The Center Will Not Hold: Thoughts on My Way to Existential Entropy
I write this in an attempt to contribute to the work we are doing in our NEH seminar on identity. I feel like an ouroboros, myself, eating its tail. I am all the figures being interviewed in the article, buried …
Visual recap of First Meeting
Here are the keywords given by the participants and group as a whole during the first meeting (which a few of us might have missed). Nothing fancy but gives us a sense of what our interests are.
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Comments on Chapter 8 of “Alone Together”
I find particularly intriguing the idea that online connectivity offers extensive possibilities for experimenting with identity (p. 152) via a kind of a social moratorium. The author goes back to this line of thought near the end of the chapter …
Capitalism, Alienation, and Connectedness: Some Thoughts on Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together
I admit that I share some of Sherry Turkle’s reservations about technology and social media. These are, frankly, more things I find personally irritating than anything else: the ever-present smartphone during social engagements (though I am guilty of this often), …
Time, Space, Identity. Oh, and attention-sharing.
Confrontation between old and new perspectives around acceptable uses of technologies are vivid in Always On, Turkle’s Chapter 8. For example, a middle-aged man is incredulous to learn that a woman he invited to dinner was blogging the conversation while …
Sherry Turkle. Alone Together. Why We Expect More. Chapter 8
The chapter is a good depiction of how we became addicted to the new media technologies, old and young. Cyborgs use to epitomize this addiction. Now it looks like we all became a prototype of Cyborgs.
One of the most …
Workers, Time and Technology: the case studies in Alone Together, Ch. 8
Reading Chapter Eight of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Togther, I was drawn to the stories and behaviors of the individuals that appear here as case studies, though perhaps not for the reasons Turkle intended (if I were to assume her …
