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Life on the Screen - by Sherry Turkle (Paperback)

Name: Life on the Screen - by Sherry Turkle (Paperback)
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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.
About the Author: Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Sociology from Harvard University.
352 Pages
Computers + Internet, Internet

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About the Book

gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self.

Book Synopsis

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. 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.

About the Author

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Sociology from Harvard University. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and has pursued her work with support from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dimensions (Overall): 5.5 Inches (H) x 8.5 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.0 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 352

Genre: Computers + Internet

Sub-Genre: Internet

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Sherry Turkle

Language: English

Street Date: September 4, 1997

TCIN: 76980964

UPC: 9780684833484

Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-1083

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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