Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
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 reviewedShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet
1997, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
185799888X 9781857998887
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
September 4, 1997, Simon & Schuster
Paperback
in English
0684833484 9780684833484
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
1996, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0297815148 9780297815143
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
5
Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet
1995, Simon & Schuster
in English
0684803534 9780684803531
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
First Sentence
"As I write these words, I keep shuffling the text on my computer screen."
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Marygrove College MARC recordmarc_claremont_school_theology MARC record
Better World Books record
marc_claremont_school_theology MARC record
Internet Archive item record
ISBNdb
Excerpts
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?July 18, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
August 6, 2021 | Edited by New York Times Bestsellers Bot | Add NYT review links |
August 16, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
March 2, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |