Life on the Screen
Identity in the Age of the Internet
Published on 4. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-0-684-83348-4 (ISBN)
Description
gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-684-83348-4 (9780684833484)
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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Sociology from Harvard University. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and has pursued her work with support from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a licensed clinical psychologist, holding a joint Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Sociology from Harvard University. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, and has pursued her work with support from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.