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Lecture with Sherry Turkle at the Salem Athenaeum- Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

Sherry Turkle was recently featured on Being, in a program called “Alive Enough?”

Lecture with SHERRY TURKLE at the Salem Athenaeum

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Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 7:30pmSalem Athenaeum

Hamilton Hall, 9 Chestnut Street, Salem

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Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, will be the Salem Athenæum’s 2011 Adams lecturer on April 21. She is the founder and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.

Professor Turkle writes on the “subjective side” of people’s relationships with technology, especially computers. She is an expert on mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired. She also was named “Woman of the Year” by Ms. Magazine and among the “forty under forty” who are changing the nation by Esquire. A featured media commentator on the social and psychological effects of technology for CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the BBC, and NPR, she has appeared on such programs as Nightline, Frontline, and 20/20.

Professor Turkle’s most recent book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, was published in January 2011. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

The Adams Lecture will be held at Hamilton Hall, Salem, at 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception and book signing. Books provided by The Spirit of ‘76 Bookstore. Reservations are strongly encouraged for this event. To register, visit salemathenaeum.net.

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