Life on the screen : identity in the age of the Internet / Sherry Turkle.

Author/creator Turkle, Sherry
Format Book
Edition1st Touchstone ed.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Touchstone, 1997.
Description347 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : identity in the age of the Internet -- The seductions of the interface. A tale of two aesthetics ; The triumph of tinkering -- 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 -- On the Internet. Aspects of the self ; TinySex and gender trouble ; Virtuality and its discontents ; Identity crisis.
Summary By carrying out nearly 2 decades of research into this subject & interviewing people about their experience of using computers, the author has produced an up-to-the-minute portrait of the new age of computers and our changing relationship with them.
General note"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-320) and index.
ISBN0684833484 (pbk.)
ISBN9780684833484 (pbk.)
ISBN0684803534
ISBN9780684803531
Govt. docs number CYP1004

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QA76.9.C66 T87 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold