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

Author: Sherry Turkle Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684833484 0684833484

"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. Similar books: Alone Together by Sherry Turkle And Then There's This by Bill Wasik The Shallows by Nicholas Carr Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson How Children Succeed by Paul Tough ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull A Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell Love Is Stronger Than Death by Stanley M. Giannet The Trauma Spectrum by Robert C. Scaer Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell The Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller Lying with the Heavenly Woman by Robert A. Johnson The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick Life Between Lives by Michael Newton Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin