SHERRY TURKLE

The Path Forward and A Fourth

Chair
Facilitation Leaders: Mia Ayres & Mary
Forgione

ET690 Week 7
3/07/2019
 OBJECTIVES
❏ Reflect on the presence of Turkle’s narrative in our daily lives
❏ Relate Turkle’s narrative to our current political climate
❏ Define and discuss “mindspace”
❏ Reflect on the relationship between technology and attention
❏ Describe how the “Fourth Chair” differs from the previous three
❏ Discuss how evolving technology has affected human intimacy
❏ Evaluate the pros and cons of robots in children's lives

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 AGENDA
1) Poll/discussion
2) Create definitions
3) Break-Out rooms
4) Break (15 minutes)
5) Discuss the Fourth Chair
6) Explore AI
7) Closing thoughts/questions

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 TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
Click here to complete the survey.

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 KONY 2012
Turkle suggests technology has
allowed society to take more
action in the political world. How
so? What are the limitations to
social media in politics?

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 “MINDSPACE”

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 BREAK OUT ROOM
“The mere presence of a phone signals that your attention is divided,
even if you don’t intend it to be” (p. 319).

Reflect on when
Discuss Discuss meaningful
whether you possible conversation has
agree or changed your
resolutions to
disagree with perspective on
Turkle’s quote. this problem.
something.

Be ready to share out your ideas with the

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group.
 BREAK
Take 15 minutes

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 A FOURTH CHAIR

▪ Compare the “fourth

chair” with the others.

▪ How has technology

contributed to the creation
of a “fourth chair”?

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 A Brief Survey
Thumbs up if you use a digital
assistant

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 ELIZA
Share Out- Identify something that is bothering
you.

Click here for ELIZA (1966)

Click here for ELIZA (2005)

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 HER vs EX MACHINA
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Robot Companion
Directions: Post an image of a robot or virtual
pet that you had when you were younger or
one that your child currently has on the
following slide. Be prepared to discuss the
pros and cons of a child using this robot
according to Turkle and/or your own
opinions.?
 POST IMAGE HERE

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 “
Now we have to ask if we
become more human when we
give our most human jobs away.
It is a moment to reconsider that
delegation. It is not a moment to
reject technology but to find
ourselves.

~Turkle (p. 362)

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 QUESTIONS?

COMMENTS?
CLOSING
THOUGHTS?
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 WANT MORE?
Here are a few related articles.

The Impact
The Robot There will
of Social
Revolution Never be an
Media on
will be the Age of
Children,
Quietest Artificial
Adolescents,
One Intimacy
and Families

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 REFERENCES:
Cixin, L. (2016, December, 7). The robot revolution will be the quietest one. The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/the-robot-revolution-will-be-the-quietest-one.html?acti

on=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-2&module=in

side-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

O'Keeffe, G. S., Clarke-Pearson, K., & Council on Communications. (2011). The Impact

of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families. Retrieved from

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800.full

Turkle, S. (2018, August, 11). There will never be an age of artificial intelligence. The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/there-will-never-be-an-age-of-artificial-intimac

y.html

Turkle, S. (2016). Reclaiming conversation the power of talk in a digital age. New York, NY:

Penguin Books.

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