SHERRY TURKLE (n. 1948), psiholog clinician, cerceteaza relatia omului cu tehnologia inca de la inceputul aparitiei computerelor personale, la sfarsitul anilor ’70. Este profesor Abby Rockefeller Mauzé de studii sociale ale stiintei si tehnologiei la MIT si directorul fondator al Initiativei MIT pentru Tehnologie si Sine. A publicat sapte bestselleruri si trei volume editate, inclusiv patru studii de referinta despre relatia noastra cu lumea digitala: Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud’s French Revolution (1978), The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995), Simulation and Its Discontents (2009), Alone Together (2011), Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (2015), The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (2021); volume editate: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (2007), Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (2008), The Inner History of Devices (2008).