Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet

Turkle, Sherry

ISBN 10: 0684803534 / ISBN 13: 9780684803531

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1995

About this Item

First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a GBN Book Club bookplate on the front endpaper: "Sherry Turkle." GBN is the Global Business Network, founded in 1987 by Stewart Brand and some fellow provocateurs. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $25.00); Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 006028

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684803534
• ISBN 13: 9780684803531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Adding a third to Emerson's keys to the nature of humanity--dreams and beasts--the author argues that computers have created dramatic psychological changes in users and in methods of learning and thinking

About the Author

Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.