{"title":"Books by Sherry Turkle","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780465093656","title":"Alone Together","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, \u003ci\u003eAlone Together\u003c\/i\u003e describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289656111477,"sku":"9780465093656","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780465093656_4f0c96af-211f-4aa5-be0a-d6eb008dab5e.jpg?v=1786013896"},{"product_id":"9780525560098","title":"The Empathy Diaries","description":"Growing up in post-war Brooklyn, Sherry Turkle searched for clues to her identity in a house filled with mysteries. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father - and never to use his name, her name. Before empathy was a way to find connection, it was her strategy for survival. She learned friendship at a Harvard\/Radcliffe on the cusp of coeducation during the anti-war movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and fought for her place as a woman and a humanist at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57688217354613,"sku":"9780525560111","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56290644361589,"sku":"9780525560098","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780525560111.jpg?v=1792686149"},{"product_id":"9780143109792","title":"Reclaiming Conversation","description":"The 10th anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A persuasive and intimate book . . . showing how, phones in hand, we turn away from our children, friends, and coworkers, even from ourselves.” —Carlos Lozada, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Turkle] presents a powerful case that a new communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Neil Postman was the greatest media analyst of the late 20th century . . . I often wish that Postman was here with us today as the pace of change and concerns about harms increase rapidly. But we do have a Neil Postman, and her name is Sherry Turkle . . . \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e was a landmark work of media scholarship . . . Sherry gives us the most powerful summation of how smartphones and social media, these powerful technologies of connection, have damaged close human relationships. She does it in four words: 'We are forever elsewhere.'” —Jonathan Haidt, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anxious Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA prescient bestseller a decade ago, and essential today—with new insight into the threats of generative AI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSherry Turkle, long an enthusiast for the promise of digital technology, now investigates its troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. At the dinner table, children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. At work, we retreat to our screens and home offices, forgoing the water-cooler conversation that once made us more productive and engaged. Online, we post opinions that our friends will agree with, avoiding the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. When we turn to our devices instead of to one another, the cost is our own humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there is good news: conversation cures. Face-to-face dialogue builds empathy, friendship, and creativity; it’s the cornerstone of democracy and good for the bottom line. Drawing on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle makes the paradigm-shifting case for conversation.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311577739637,"sku":"9780143109792","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780143109792_c1be670e-f807-4eec-94d8-bb81a759c817.jpg?v=1786011629"},{"product_id":"artificial-intimacy","title":"Artificial Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAN URGENT WARNING ABOUT HOW OUR GROWING ATTACHMENT TO HUMAN-LIKE AI IS ERODING UT CAPACITY FOR EMPATHY, CARING, AND THE VERY QUALITIES THAT MAKE US HUMAN . . . FOR READERS OF THE ANXIOUS GENERATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial media came for our attention - now Chatbots are coming for our relationships. Nearly one-third of adults now turn to AI programmes like ChatGPT for companionship. For Gen Z, the figures are even more stark: eight out of ten say they could form a deep emotional attachment with a machine.   It's not hard to see why. Chatbots offer the fantasy of the perfect partner: endlessly available, endlessly attentive, always affirming. But as MIT professor Sherry Turkle discovers by speaking to people who use chatbots as confidants, therapists, carers and lovers, these hallucinatory bonds come at great cost. The more we ask machines to care for us, the less we expect from - and give to - other people. AI deepens the loneliness it claims to cure.   For decades, Turkle has been the leading voice on how digital technologies erode connection. Now, blending vivid storytelling with sharp cultural critique, she turns her attention to a technology that has convinced so many that the performance of empathy is empathy enough. Essential reading for parents and children, clinicians and patients, managers and employees, Artificial Intimacy offers both a cautionary tale and a roadmap for being human in the age of AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Artificial Intimacy 'The most qualified member of Team Humanity to call us back to our senses, and to each other' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation'Structured around key stages in psychological development - childhood, adolescence, love, work, death - the book argues strongly that our new \"posthuman conversational partners\" are inadequate companions for life's journey. Turkle grounds her analysis in academic literature, while illuminating it with often haunting vignettes' Becky Hogge, Financial Times'In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis going on' Aziz Ansari on Reclaiming Conversation'A must-read for anyone engaging with AI today. That just about means all of us' Esther Perel, author and host of Where Should We Begin'Sherry Turkle, our wisest guide to digital life, has written her most urgent book yet. Artificial Intimacy will help you avoid the profound but often hidden threats AI poses to you and your relationships. Read it and share it with all the humans you know' Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57499324678517,"sku":"9780349136912","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57697042891125,"sku":"9780349136929","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349136912_05d7e151-608e-4a01-a514-dc2e9f0ddb18.jpg?v=1793083561"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sherry-turkle.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}