CHAUTAUQUA - The morning lectures of Week Six will focus on digital identity, beginning Monday as lecturers explore the physiological, cultural and psychological consequences of living digitally as well as how online presence shapes the concept of self, demands for privacy and the way we relate to one another.
Sherry Turkle kicks off the morning lectures on Monday at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater. Turkle is the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
On Tuesday, chief digital officer at NBC News, Vivian Schiller, will give the morning lecture. Schiller leads the digital strategy for both NBC News and MSNBC.
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Pictured is chief digital officer at NBC News, Vivian Schiller.
Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics at Arizona State University, Braden Allenby is the morning lecturer on Wednesday. He is the founding director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management at Arizona State, and the founding chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security.
Taking the stage on Thursday will be Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The Washington Post and Commentary.
The morning lecture on Friday will be given by Andrew Zolli, executive director and curator of PopTech, an annual gathering of thought leaders that explores the social impact of technology.
The Interfaith Lecture Series of Week Six will begin with senior religion editor for The Huffington Post, Rev. Paul Raushenbush. The afternoon theme is "The Life of Faith and the Digital Age," and Raushenbush will give the week's first lecture at 2 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy on Monday.
Lecturing on Tuesday is Rev. Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Anne Foerst will give the interfaith lecture on Wednesday. Foerst is an associate professor of computer science at St. Bonaventure University. Previously she worked as a research scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thursday's lecturer will be Verity A. Jones, project director of the New Media Project and Research Fellow at Union Theological Seminary.
Week Six's Interfaith Lecture Series will end Friday with a lecture by Rachel Wagner, assistant professor of religion and culture at Ithaca College.
Morning lectures are held in the Amphitheater weekdays at 10:45 a.m. Afternoon/Interfaith lectures are held in the Hall of Philosophy weekdays at 2 p.m. Afternoon lecture themes coordinate with the themes of the 10:45 a.m. lectures, but take a different angle of vision.
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