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An edition of Life on the Screen (1995)

Life on the screen

identity in the age of the Internet

by

  • 24 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

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.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
347

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Subjects

Computer networks Computers and civilization Psychological aspects Psychological aspects of Computer networks Ciência da computação (aspectos sociais;aspectos psicológicos) Interface multimídia Sociale aspecten Aspect psychologique Réseaux d'ordinateurs Virtuelle Realität Internet Ordinateurs et civilisation Identiteit Identidade cultural Identität Sozialpsychologie Computers, social aspects New York Times reviewed
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Life on the Screen
2011, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
September 4, 1997, Simon & Schuster
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Cover of: Life on the screen
Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet
1997, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: Life on the Screen
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
1996, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: Life on the screen
Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet
1995, Simon & Schuster
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-320) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.9
Library of Congress
QA76.9.C66 T87 1995

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Pagination
347 p. ;
Number of pages
347

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL802029M
ISBN 10
0684803534
LCCN
95038428
OCLC/WorldCat
33078560
LibraryThing
6882
Goodreads
1068517

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Work ID
OL2959129W

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As I write these words, I keep shuffling the text on my computer screen.
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