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The inner history of devices

Author: Sherry Turkle
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.

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Genre/Form: Aspect psychologique
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sherry Turkle
ISBN: 9780262201766 0262201763
OCLC Number: 191866011
Description: x, 208 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The prosthetic eye / Alicia Kestrell Verlager --
Cell phones / E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman --
The patterning table / Nicholas A. Knouf --
Television / Orit Kuritsky-Fox --
The World Wide Web / John Hamilton --
Computer games / Marsha H. Levy-Warren --
Cyberplaces / Kimberlyn Leary --
The internal cardiac defibrillator / Anne Pollock --
The visible human / Rachel Prentice --
Slashdot.org / assisted by Anita Say Chan --
The dialysis machine / Aslihan Sanal --
Video poker / Natasha Schüll.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle.
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"Sherry Turkle and the contributors use memoirs, psychoanalysis, and ethnography to illuminate our attachments, our grief, our compulsions, our use of things to explore life and death, to shape new Read more...

 
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