# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sherry-turkle
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:05:03.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sherry-turkle"
name: "Sherry Turkle"
slug: "sherry-turkle"
description: "Sherry Turkle is an American sociologist. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in social studies and later a PhD in sociology and personality psychology at Harvard University. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects. Her memoir 'Empathy Diaries' received excellent critical reviews."
tagline: "American social scientist and psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sherry_Turkle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-06-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8762169680111265
  historical:           15.84950533333333
  currentAttention:     3.370065261581256
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://sherryturkle.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherry Turkle"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sherry Turkle"
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    title: "Sherry Turkle"
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    title: "Sherry Turkle"
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    title: "Sherry Turkle"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump