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Authors: Sherry Turkle

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Appiah, Kwame Anthony
 
Apple
 
Artificial intelligence (AI)
 
limits in understanding
 
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT)
 
Artificial life
 
Aryananda, Lijin
 
Asperger’s syndrome, robots and
 
Attention,
 
children’s desire for
 
continual partial
 
Authenticity,
 
robotic companionship and
 
illusion of, in social network profiles
 
online life and
 
Autism, robots and
 
“Avatar of me,” Facebook profile as
 
Avatars
 
building
 
relationships among
 
 
Babysitters
 
consideration of robots as
 
Baird, Freedom
 
Beatles: Rock Band
 
Behaviorism, of robotic moment
 
Bell, Gordon
 
Bentham, Jeremy
 
Bio Bugs (toy), robots and
 
BIT (Baby IT)
 
BlackBerry
 
and sense of control
 
excluding others and
 
turning off
 
Blade Runner
(film)
 
Blogs
 
and the loss of the particular
 
Bohr, Niels
 
Boundaries, sense of personal, technology and
 
Breakups
 
face-to-face
 
online
 
Breazeal, Cynthia
 
Brooks, Rodney
 
Buber, Martin
 
Bullying, online
 
Bush, Vannevar
 
 
Caper, Robert
 
Caretakers, ideas about robots as
 
Caring
 
for a robot
 
performance of
 
substitutes for
 
“Caring machines,”
 
development of
 
Cell phones (smartphones)
 
and autonomy, development of
 
people as “pausable” and
 
avoiding calls and
 
demands of
 
documenting life using
 
sense of emergency and
 
identity (as collaborative) and
 
photographs and
 
private time on, desire for
 
safety (feeling of), and
 
turning off
 
Chat logs
 
“Chat people,”
 
Chat rooms
 
Chatroulette, playing
 
Chess, computers and
 
Churchill, Winston
 
Civilization (game)
 
Coach, robot as
 
Cog
 
seeking “affection” from
 
building
 
demystifying of
 
meeting
 
relationships, range of, with
 
talking to
 
teaching
 
Cold comforts, robots as source of
 
Collaborative self
 
Collection, recollection and
 
Columbine
 
Communication (digital)
 
in abbreviations (emoticons)
 
versus connection
 
choice among genres
 
and nostalgia for letters
 
volume and velocity of
 
and simplification of responses
 
from substitution to preference for
 
hiding as affordance of
 
and “discontents,”
 
Community
 
confessional sites and
 
seeking
 
Companionship, confusions in digital culture
 
Complicity, with robot
 
Computer psychotherapy, attitudes toward
 
Computers
 
as evocative object
 
holding power of
 
as mechanical and spiritual (soul in the)
 
subjective versus instrumental
 
as caring machines
 
and cyborg self
 
Connectivity
 
and global consciousness
 
and new symptoms of connection/disconnection
 
Confessional sites, online
 
apologies and
 
communities, contrast to
 
critical comments about
 
and discussion of abuse
 
reading, experience of
 
as symptoms
 
and venting
 
cruelty of strangers and
 
Connections
 
on backchannels during meetings
 
communication versus
 
constant
 
disconnection and
 
online
 
power of
 
stepping back from, desire to
 
seductions of
 
Connectivity
 
anxiety
 
worries of parents
 
culture
 
discontents of
 
global reach of
 
robots merged with
 
Conversations
 
beginning/ending
 
face-to-face
 
online
 
private
 
robots and
 
text messages as
 
Crocodiles, real and robotic
 
Csíkszentmihalyi, Mihaly
 
Cubism, as metaphor for simultaneous vision of robot as machine and creature
 
Communications culture, digital
 
characteristics of
 
cyborg sensibility and
 
“dumbing down,” (emotional) in
 
“networked” sensibility, characteristics of
 
Walden images in
 
sacred spaces and
 
 
Damasio, Antonio
 
Darwin, Charles
 
“Darwinian Buttons,”
 
eye contact
 
track motion
 
gesture
 
in encounter with Cog
 
De Vaucanson, Jacques
 
Dean, Howard
 
Death, simulation and
 
Deep Thought (computer program)
 
Democracy, privacy and
 
Dertouzos, Michael
 
Dick, Philip K.
 
Diet coach (robotic)
 
Digital “creatures,”
 
Digital life
 
anxiety of
 
ironies of
 
connection and disconnection and
 
Disney Corporation
 
Disneyworld
 
Divorce
 
Doi, Toshitado
 
Dolls (traditional)
 
Domo (robot)
 
Downtime
 
Dreams, symptoms and
 
Dreyfus, Hubert
 
 
E-mails
 
archive, possibility of
 
checking, compulsion about
 
comfort from
 
control issues and
 
demands of
 
impersonality of
 
and misunderstandings
 
popularity of
 
privacy and
 
and voice (loss of)
 
withdrawing from
 
Edsinger, Aaron
 
Domo and
 
Efficiency, technology used for
 
Elder care
 
robots and
 
Elderly
 
boredom/isolation/neglect and
 
My Real Babies and
 
robots and
 
ELIZA effect
 
ELIZA program
 
Emergency, cell phones and sense of
 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
 
Emoticons
 
Emotion
 
anonymity and expression of
 
choosing medium to match
 
composing
 
development and
 
experimenting with
 
authenticity of
 
instant messaging and
 
machine intelligence and
 
performance of
 
synthetic
 
technology and confusion of
 
“Emotion enough,”
 
Empathy
 
Erikson, Erik
 
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
(film)
 
Ethical concerns, with new technical advances
 
EverQuest (game)
 
Evocative objects, robots as
 
Experimentation, and human development
 
 
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