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

Turkle, Sherry

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ISBN 10: 0684803534 ISBN 13: 9780684803531

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1995

Language: English

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Unmarked text. Signed by author to previous owner. Unclipped dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover. Examines how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. 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. 347p. Index.

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

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684803534

ISBN 13

9780684803531

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Hardcover

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First Edition.

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Very Good

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very good

Weight

26 ounces

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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

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

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