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The second self : computers and the human spirit
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The second self : computers and the human spirit

Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1984.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sherry Turkle
ISBN: 0671468480 9780671468484
OCLC Number: 10273404
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 362 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The evocative object -- Growing up with computers: the animation of the machine. Child philosophers: are smart machines alive? -- Video games and computer holding power -- Child programmers: the first generation -- Adolescence and identity: finding yourself in the machine -- The new computer cultures: the mechanization of the mind. Personal computers with personal meanings -- Hackers: loving the machine for itself -- The new philosophers of artificial intelligence: a culture with global aspirations -- Into a new age. Thinking of yourself as a machine -- The human spirit in a computer culture -- Notes. On method: a sociology of sciences of mind -- Children's psychological discourse: methods and data summary.
Responsibility: by Sherry Turkle.

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