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

by SherryTurkle (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.24

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $4.66

  Millions of people worldwide now interact via computers, often assuming personalities of their own creation, but what are the psychological effects of such game playing? This book examines the wonders and dangers of virtual interaction and the profound impact it has on our lives. The author argues that what is emerging is a new sense of identity, one which is de-centred and multiple.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.24

  Nowadays, computers are no longer given commands; instead we enter into dialogues with them and create virtual realities. This one-to-one person/machine relationship has blossomed into a global communication network, the Internet, which is examined in this book.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $22.40

  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.