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The Second Self
Sherry Turkle
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Description for The Second Self
Paperback. A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a tool, but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. Technology, she writes, catalyzes changes not only in what we do but ... Read more
A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a tool, but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. Technology, she writes, catalyzes changes not only in what we do but ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262701112
SKU
V9780262701112
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About Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen: Identity in the ... Read more
Reviews for The Second Self
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times