Alone Together (68 page)
Authors: Sherry Turkle
perils of
self-presentation and
Personae, virtual
Pets
digital and biological
digital and robotic
responsibility/commitment, as teachers of
Phone calls
avoiding
boundaries in, anxiety about
interruptions, and
in public space
real-time commitment of
Photos
cell phones and
online
Piaget, Jean
Picard, Rosalind
Plato
Play, “serious,”
Poe, Edgar Alan
Pokémon, children’s ideas about “powers” and
PostSecret
Potter, Harry
Privacy
and anxieties of always
concerns about
illusion of
intimacy and
online
politics of
reclaiming
Profiles, online
avatars and
constructing
Programming
hacker culture and
Programs, crashing/reviving
Protean Self, The
(Lifton)
(Lifton)
Protean self
Proust, Marcel
Psychoanalysis, and ethic of
Psychological risks, robots and
Psychopathology, social construction of
Quake, playing
Quandaries
Ramona (avatar)
Real, virtual and
Realtechnik
Recollection, collection and
Relationships
building
complexities of
intensity of
with less
no-risk
real, in the
robots and
safety, feeling of
sanctioning of robotic
skills
sociable robots and
titrating distance and (“Goldilocks effect”)
reflecting on
virtual
weak-tie
Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust)
(Proust)
Republic, The
(Plato)
(Plato)
Resignation, Thoreau’s view of
Riesman, David
Robot companions
attitudes about
control issues and
elderly and
loneliness and
physical involvement with
promise of
Robotic moment
behaviorism of
psychological risks of
romantic reaction and
roboticists, views of
Robotics
connectivity and
elderly and
nurturance as “killer app” in
Robots
aggression, as a way to connect with
animating with one’s own personality
caring by
connection to, children’s desire for
and conscience, balm to
daily life, considering role in
discontents with
conversations with
humanoid
human caretaker, preference for
merging with (Lindman)
as performative
physical contact with, power of
relationships with
sex with
as substitute humans
as superheroes
as uncanny
Rock Band (simulation)
Roller Coaster Tycoon (game)
Romantic reaction
robotic moment and
Rorschach, robots as
Roxxxy
Safety, desire for
Sandel, Michael
Scassellati, Brian
Cog and
Schmidt, Eric
Schüll, Natasha
Scientific American
Second Life
advertisement for
avatars on
communities and
joining
overstimulation on
Second Self, The
(Turkle)
(Turkle)
Self
collaborative
inner-/other-directed sense of
new state of
site and
Self-presentation, performance and
Self-reflection
Self-surveillance
Selfobjects, role of
Separation
in adolescence
as rejection
September 11th
Sex
with robots
reverse engineering
Sex dolls, burials for
Shakespeare, William
Shibata, Takanori
Simon (electronic game)
Simon, Herbert
Sims Online (game)
Simulation
as catharsis
as coursening
Simultaneous vision
Skype
Slick, Grace
Sociable robots
adolescents and
aggression toward
alive enough, pragmatic notion of
care/attention, desire that they provide
as companions
disappointment with, effects of
elder care and
ethical terrain, on new.
and intimacy, ideas about
networked life and
performances by
philosophical traditions in dialogue with, and
relationships with
reflecting on
as symptom and dream of
Social networks
hacking and
profiles and identity on
Solitude
intimacy and
Sontag, Susan
Sony
Space
public and private
online, special qualities of
sacred
Speak & Spell (electronic game)
Spielberg, Steven
Spontaneity, loss of in online life
Spoon (band)
Stalking, online
Star Wars
(film)
(film)
Starner, Thad
Starr, Ringo
State Radio (band)
Storr, Anthony
Strangers
confessions, online, and
as “friended,”
Super Mario (game)
Symptoms, dreams and
Tamagotchis
caring for
death of
feelings attributed to
primer, notion of
Technology
blaming
communities and
complex ecology of
complex effects of
confusion about relationships and
efficiency and
embracing, with cost
and expectations of ourselves
holding power of
keeping it busy, notion of
mythology and
narcissistic style and
Oedipal story to discuss limitations of
as prosthesis
thinking about
Teddy bears
Tethered life
Texts
apology, use of for
complexity of feelings about
control, and
conversations through
feelings, path toward
giving up
hastily composed
as interruptions
loneliness and
protective qualities of
reflecting on (adolescents)
seductiveness of
speed up of communication and
spontaneity and
teaching parents about
Thompson, Clive
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