Life on the ScreenLife on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer on our psychological lives and our evolving ideas about minds, bodies, and machines. What is emerging, Turkle says, is a new sense of identity—as decentered and multiple. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people’s experiences of virtual environments that confirm a dramatic shift in our notions of self, other, machine, and world. The computer emerges as an object that brings postmodernism down to earth. |
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LIFE ON THE SCREEN: Identity in the Age of the Internet
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis treatise by the best-selling author of The Second Self (LJ 6/15/84) explores the world of virtual identity on the Internet by examining "Multi-User Domains" (MUDs). Turkle describes MUDs as a new ... Read full review
Contents
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The SeducTioNS of TNE iNTERfACE | 29 |
The Triumph of Tinkering | 50 |
Of DREAMS ANCI BEASTS | 77 |
ON TIHE INTERNET | 177 |
Identity Crisis | 255 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Life on the Screen |
| Author | Sherry Turkle |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1439127115, 9781439127117 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / General Science / General |
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