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The second self : computers and the human spirit /

In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turkle, Sherry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Computers.
Electronic data processing > Psychological aspects.
Electronic digital computers.
computers.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262257107
0262257106
142374649X
9781423746492
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. 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
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. Into a New Age
  • Thinking of Yourself as a Machine
  • The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture
  • Epilogue: Changing the Subject and Finding the Object.

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