This readable if somewhat diffuse study draws again on a wide range of interviews with computer usersfrom children and graduate students to professional programmers. In an unsettling, cuttingedge exploration of the ways computers are revising the boundaries between people and computers. Identity in the age of the internet kindle edition by turkle, sherry. A question of identity life on the screen is a fascinating and wideranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples perceptions of themselves, and the individuals relationship to machines. Identity in the age of the internet by sherry turkle 1997, paperback at the best online prices at.
Article information, pdf download for sherry turkle, life on the screen. It addresses how people interact with computers, and consequences of that interaction. Identity in the age of the internet english edition ebook kindle. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Sherry turkle explains the nascent computer culture of a simulation called. Sherry turkle, a professor of the sociology of science at mit and a licensed psychologist, uses internet muds multiuser domains, or in older gaming. Identity in the age of the internet english edition.
She graduated as the valedictorian from abraham lincoln high school in 1965 and after that she attended radcliffe college in cambridge, massachusetts. Life on the screen has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Identity in the age of the internet is a book by clinical psychologist and professor sherry turkle. Life on the screenis a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the internet. Life 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. More than a decade after her groundbreaking study, the second self 1984, mit psychologist turkle returns to the subject of human views of and relationships with computers and through computers, with each other and themselves. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Identity in the age of the internet 1st touchstone ed by turkle, sherry isbn. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. What is emerging, turkle says, is a new sense of identity as decentered and multiple. In life on the screen, turkle presents a study of how peoples use of the computer has evolved over time, and the profound effect that this machine has on its users. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial. A recent example of postmodernist philosophy can be found in the work of mit professor sherry turkle, in her book life on the screen.
Life on the screen question of accoumabillty for the actions of virtual personae who have only words at their command. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read life on the screen. Rl is just one more window, and its usually not my best one. Earning her bachelors in social studies here, she later went on to harvard university to gain her masters in sociology in 1973. What is emerging, turkle argues, is a new sense of identity, one which is decentred and multiple. Life on the screen identity in the age of the internet waldorf library. Life on the screen guide books acm digital library. The second self computers and the human spirit in the second self, sherry turkle looks at the computer not as a tool, but as part of our social and psychological lives. What is emerging, turkle says, is a new sense of identityas decentered and multiple.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading life on the screen. Virtual personae in this essay, i focus on one key element of online life and its impact on identity. The book has a distinct boston air to it thankfully that of a cozy cambridge coffee shop and not a downwind charles river pier. Life on the screen isbn 9780684833484 pdf epub sherry. Life on the screen identity in the age of the internet. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Identity in the age of the internet, mit professor of sociology sherry turkle examines how humancomputer interaction, especially as related to the internet, has shaped our perception of self. Pdf life on the screen download full pdf book download. Life on the screen is commendable as an introduction to interactive computer use.
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