Life on the Screen by 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. 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.
She is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (MIT Press, twentieth anniversary edition), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, among other books. She is the editor of three MIT Press books: Evocative Items: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Electronics. Anita Say Chan is an Assistant Research Professor of Communications in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Media's Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute of Communications Research.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684833484 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684833484 |
| Title | Life on the Screen |
| Author | Sherry Turkle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1997-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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