The Sociology of Objects

I'm not quite sure if that's the right way to describe the work of Sherry Turkle at MIT who was profiled in the paper today.  Here's a brief description that might give a better sense: "Turkle spent six years interviewing programmers, students, and children, and in 1984 published "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit." It argued that the computer was more than a tool, but was a part of our social and psychological lives.

That is what Turkle does: She sees an object, and by studying how people relate to that object, she defines new questions of self."

It reminded me of the GC's story Irreconcilable Differences.

 

"She studies our affection for objects"