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Authors: Sherry Turkle

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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)
 
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)
 
Republic, The
(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)
 
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)
 
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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