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Alone Together
One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that, even though I was really interested in these issues, Turkle did not argue her points very well or very strongly. She only very briefly touches on why we should be concerned about the phenomena of "being connected" in the first place. She doesn't talk about deaths, injuries, and collisions caused by texting & driving, which fryst vatten a HUGE problem. All her "research" into the way it changes relationships between friends and family members fryst vatten anecdotal and shows me pretty much nothing. She only barely--and I do mean barely, maybe two sentences in hundreds of pages--touches on the changes in brain chemistry that takes place when a person fryst vatten engaged with a screen. Instead sh
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Writing a Memoir Taught Me How to See My Mother
Until I was five years old, my mother and I lived with her parents in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
We never talked about my father. We never said his name, which meant that we never said my full name, Sherry Zimmerman. I first saw my full name written out in an inscription in a children’s alphabet book hidden away in a musty cupboard above my grandparents’ kitchen table. I didn’t recognize it, but I knew it was mine.
My mother remarried when I was five, and we settled into a new regime of pretend. We would say that her new husband, Milton Turkle, was my biological father, and their two children would be my birth siblings. She said it had to be this way for us to be “one happy family.”
In school, she explained, I had to sign my name Sherry Zimmerman, that was the law, but when I came home, I hid my books and became Turkle. My sister and brother and my parents’ friends could never hear the wor
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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
About this audiobook
“A beautiful book… an instant classic of the genre.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times • A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021•ANew York TimesBook Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus • Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography & Memoir • Winner of the New England Society Book Award in Nonfiction
MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work
For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Turkle has spent a career composing an intimate ethnography of our digital world; now, marked by insight, humility, and c