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Dr. Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (Basic Books, 1978; MIT Press paper, 1981; second revised edition, Guilford Press, 1992);The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon and Schuster, 1984; Touchstone paper, 1985; second revised edition, MIT Press, forthcoming); and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, November 1995; Touchstone paperback, 1997). Dr. Turkle has been exploring questions
about human development given the most recent developments in the computer culture. She is focusing on two areas: first, the development of computational objects as they become increasingly "relational," that is, designed to exhibit affect and respond to human emotions in an effort towards developing "sociable" and nurturant connections with people. She leads an NSF-funded research project, "Relational Artifacts," on the psychological impact of computational objects as they become increasingly sociable, exploring a range of objects, including "affective" computer programs, humanoid robots, games that simulate people, creatures, societies, and robotic dolls and pets. She is studying the users of these technologies as well as new ways to theorize our new relationships with the
world of artifacts. Second, Turkle is Principal Investigator on an NSF-funded study of "Information Technology and Professional Identity: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Virtuality," a collaborative effort at the Initiative which looks at the impact of using simulation technologies on a range of professions including architecture, medicine, and nuclear weapons design. She delivered the annual Freud Lecture in Vienna, "Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture?" which explores the
question of where our emotional vulnerabilities to these objects are taking us, both emotionally, ethically, and theoretically, and has presented this issue in keynote addresses to the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Turkle is currently editing a book, "Evocative Objects: Things We Think With," a collection of essays that has grown out of the Initiative's work, and completing a book which she considers the third of her "computational trilogy" on people's increasingly intimate relationships with machines that have been explicitly designed to be human companions. "
Vesna, Victoria
"PRINCIPAL FIELDS OF INTERESTS Practice | Theory of: Art & Science, Fashion & Technology, Corporate Culture & Technology, Social Networks, Data Visualization, Database Aesthetics, Context, Online Multiuser environments, Installations, Performance. "
Yesil, Basil
"Bilge Yesil is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Media Ecology program. Her dissertation research is in video surveillance technologies and their implications on privacy. Bilge received her M.A in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she held a Fulbright scholarship. Her publications include "Workplace Surveillance, Inc.: Implications on Autonomy and How 'the Watched' Experience Surveillance Technologies," Reconstruction, May 2002; "Internet Café as Battlefield: State Control over Internet Cafes in Turkey and the Lack of Popular Resistance," Journal of Popular Culture, accepted May 2, 2002 (in the works); and "Reel Pleasures: Exploring the Historical Roots of Media Voyeurism and Exhibitionism," Journal of Culture and Communication, November 2001. Bilge teaches History of Communication, Language, Thought and Culture, and Impacts of Technology. " (http://www.nyu.edu/education/culturecomm/faculty/instructors.html)
Young, Kimberly
"DR. KIMBERLY YOUNG, a former systems analyst and clinical psychologist, is Executive Director of the Center for On-Line Addiction and serves as the webmaster for www.Netaddiction.com, the first educational resource center and online clinic to specialize in Internet-related conditions such as compulsive day trading, online infidelity, and cybersexual addiction. Dr. Young travels both domestically and abroad to conduct CE workshops on the treatment of cyber-related disorders and the development of comprehensive web-based treatment programs for healthcare organizations. She also works as a business consultant to CEOs, HRMs, and EAPs on how to effectively implement the Internet and e-commerce in the workplace. Dr. Young has served as an expert witness for both civil and criminal cases regarding her research on online behavior and she recently authored "Caught in the Net," the first recovery book for Internet Addiction, already translated in four languages. Her work has been featured in hundreds of newsprint publications including major articles in The Wall Street Journal, USAToday, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time and she has appeared on numerous national and international radio and television programs including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, Good Morning America, and ABCs World News Tonight. Dr. Young currently serves on the editorial board of CyberPsychology and Behavior, is the editor of the CyberHealth E-Newsletter, a columnist for Commitment Magazine, an e-zine for women, and recently served as the National Spokesperson for Reuters International, Inc., regarding their study on information addiction among corporations. Dr. Young is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, and a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Council for Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, and the International Society of Mental Health On-line." (http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/chat991024.html)
