Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
@inproceedings{Turkle1997LifeOT, title={Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet}, author={Sherry Turkle}, year={1997} }
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A Question of Identity
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user…
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