[Mitworld] New: Sherry Turkle on Devices, Museum talk on Technology and Communities

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 23 | January 28, 2009

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The Inner History of Devices
November 6, 2008

On the occasion of the publication of her latest book, The Inner History of Devices, Turkle speaks of the importance of technology as a subjective tool, as a window into the soul.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/634

Speaker:
Sherry Turkle
Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

Event Host:
MIT Libraries

"Technology in every form raises the question of human purposes and asks what those purposes are, but this only occurs if we come to technology with prepared minds and open hearts."
-Sherry Turkle

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Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating Technology
November 5, 2008

The best way to help a community help itself, say Dayna Cunningham and Alexa Mills, is to enable
its members to find their voices and talk to each other. In this MIT Museum event, they detail the development of several projects in the U.S. and overseas, which enable communities to express and define themselves, and support more engagement in civic and political processes.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/635

Speaker:
Dayna Cunningham
Executive Director, Community Innovators Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Alexa Mills
Community Media Artist, MIT Community Innovators Lab

Event Host:
MIT Museum

"With community-based media projects, you must believe with all of your heart that people in that community have the best knowledge of anyone in the world about their own community."
Alexa Mills

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In The Pipeline:
Chomsky on Gaza

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Speaker:
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor
Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus)

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