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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Turkle, Sherry. Second self. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1984 (OCoLC)563120023 |
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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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Examines the effect of the new "computer culture" on both children and adults and theorizes that computers are responsible for the new wave of mechanical determinism and a revival of mysticism and spirituality.
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