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Life on the screen : identity in the age of the Internet /

A book about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turkle, Sherry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1995]
Subjects:
Computers and civilization.
Computer networks > Psychological aspects.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : identity in the age of the Internet
  • I. The seductions of the interface. A tale of two aesthetics ; The triumph of tinkering
  • II. Of dreams and beasts. Making a pass at a robot ; Taking things at interface value ; The quality of emergence ; Artificial life as the new frontier
  • III. On the Internet. Aspects of the self ; TinySex and gender trouble ; Virtuality and its discontents ; Identity crisis
  • A note on method: the inner history of technology.