Sherry Turkle, THE EMPATHY DIARIES

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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MIT Professor Sherry Turkle has long been revered for her research on society's relationship with technology. In her newest book, The Empathy Diaries, she blends her research with her own narrative as she analyzes the various roles empathy has played in her family history. Sherry talks with Zibby about how her relationship with her mom continues to evolve and the ways in which writing this book began to heal some of her old wounds.

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0:39.6	Sherry Turkle is the author of The Empathy Diaries, a memoir. She is also the Abby Rockefeller-Mauze Professor of the Social
0:45.7	Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on
0:51.6	Technology and Self. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and the author of six books, including
0:57.0	Alone Together and the New York Times bestseller reclaiming conversation.
1:01.1	Her latest book, The Empathy Diaries, was just published.
1:04.3	Welcome, Sherry.
1:05.7	Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the Empathy
1:09.9	Diaries.
1:10.4	I'm so happy to be here.
1:11.8	I listen to this and I'm a mom who has time to read books, but I listen anyway.
1:18.9	Excellent.
1:19.6	Well, I mean, at least then you'll get lots of other recommendations.
1:23.7	Well, but I'm a special mom because I'm a professor, so my day job is reading books, so I don't
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