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Authors: Sherry Turkle

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building a sense of a robotic “thou” through
 
communication through
 
Facebook
 
adolescents and
 
anxiety about and problems with
 
apologizing on
 
friending on
 
honesty on
 
leaving
 
messages on
 
photos on
 
playing games on
 
privacy and
 
profile on
 
Victorian calling card and
 
Fano, Robert
 
Fantasies, about technology
 
“Fearful symmetries” (between people and things)
 
Feelings (and technology)
 
complexity of
 
displacement of
 
distance from
 
exploring
 
robots and
 
sharing
 
Fights, online
 
Flaming, online
 
Forbidden experiments
 
Foucault, Michel
 
French, Marilyn
 
Freud, Sigmund
 
Friendship
 
online
 
Furbies
 
action figures and
 
caring for
 
“death” of
 
demands of
 
home studies of
 
hybridity of
 
relationships with
 
teaching
 
turning off
 
 
Games
 
online
 
playing
 
role-playing
 
stepping out of
 
Gemmell, Jim
 
Gmail, terms of service for
 
Google
 
Grief project (Pia Lindman)
 
 
Hacking
 
Hasbro
 
Heidegger, Martin
 
Hines, Douglas
 
Horvitz, Eric
 
 
Identity
 
adolescent life and
 
cell phones and
 
constructing
 
exploring
 
false
 
multiplicity of
 
online
 
Identity play
 
IMs.
See
Instant messages
 
Independence, adolescents and
 
Instant messages (IMs)
 
and bad news, teenagers’ views on
 
and emotional distance
 
nonchalance (seeming) of
 
recording
 
Intelligence
 
Internet
 
access to
 
break from
 
growing up with
 
identity and
 
as permanent record
 
as refreshment
 
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
 
“Internet twin,” Facebook profile as
 
Interruptions
 
Intimacy
 
future of
 
losing
 
multitasking and
 
online
 
privacy and
 
reflecting on
 
as risky
 
solitude and
 
technology and
 
iPhone
 
Ishiguro, Hiroshi
 
Isolation, technology and
 
Italian MySpace
 
 
Kahn, Louis
 
Kant, Immanuel
 
Kasparov, Gary
 
Kelly, Kevin
 
Kidd, Cory
 
Kismet
 
affection from
 
learning by
 
meeting
 
relationships, range of, with
 
talking with
 
technical problems, reaction to
 
Kohut, Heinz: selfobjects and
 
Kurzweil, Raymond
 
 
Langton, Christopher
 
Lester, John
 
Letters
 
Lévinas, Emmanuel
 
Levy, David
 
Lickleider, J. C. R.
 
Life Browser
 
Life capture
 
Life mix, life notion of
 
Lifton, Robert Jay
 
Lindman, Pia
 
affective computing and
 
cyborg dreams and
 
Domo and
 
grief project and
 
romantic scripts and
 
Loneliness
 
handling
 
robotic caregivers and
 
texting and
 
Loopt
 
Love
 
future of
 
online
 
reverse engineering
 
robots and
 
simulated
 
tests
 
Love and Sex with Robots
(Levy)
 
 
Machine intelligence
 
Machines
 
people seeing themselves as
 
psychological/spiritual view of
 
romancing the
 
Magic Mountain, The
(Mann)
 
Mann, Steve
 
Mann, Thomas
 
Marriage, online
 
McCarthy, Joseph
 
McLuhan, Marshall
 
McNealy, Scott
 
Memory
 
offloading
 
Mentally retarded, robots and
 
Mentors, robots as
 
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
 
Merlin (electronic game)
 
Mertz (robot)
 
Messages, electronic
 
asynchronous
 
looking at
 
stream of
 
unopened
 
voice and
 
Milo (virtual human)
 
Mind/body dualism
 
Minsky, Marvin
 
Mirror neurons
 
Mobile devices
 
productivity and
 
time alone and
 
turning off
 
Moral issues
 
Multi-lifing (life mix)
 
Multitasking
 
alchemy of time and
 
digital culture and
 
classroom time and
 
intimacy, challenge to
 
Multiuser domains (MUDs)
 
Mutuality, expectation of
 
My Real Baby
 
babysitter, fantasy of it as
 
caring for
 
elderly and
 
pain, reactions to
 
MyLifeBits
 
MySpace
 
communities and
 
identity on
 
messaging on
 
photos on
 
privacy and
 
 
Nass, Clifford
 
Networked devices
 
Networked life
 
compulsions of
 
robotics and
 
stress of
 
Networks
 
Neurochemicals, people as constituted by
 
New York Times
 
New Yorker, The
 
Nomadism, virtual
 
Nursebot
 
Nursing homes
 
robots and
 
Nurturance
 
as killer app
 
robots and
 
 
Obama, Barack
 
Oedipus
 
Oldenberg, Ray
 
Online life
 
authenticity and
 
complications of
 
reflecting on
 
dropping out of
 
etiquette of
 
extramarital affairs and
 
individual experimentation and
 
multiplicity of selves in
 
 
Pain, simulations of
 
Panopticon
 
Papert, Seymour
 
Parents
 
involvement of
 
separation from
 
visiting elderly
 
Paro
 
cared for by, feeling of being
 
companionship of
 
memories and
 
talking to
 
People
 
things and
 
mechanical view of
 
persistence of on Internet
 
Performance
 
disorientation of
 
in avatars, profiles, and text

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