- Paperback: 347 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc; 1st Touchstone Ed edition (29 Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684833484
- ISBN-13: 978-0684833484
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 159,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BEYOND DREAMS AND BEASTS tells a story of the story of the changing impact of the computeron our psychological lives. What is emerging, Turkle argues, is a new sense of identity, one which is de-centred and multiple. She describes the trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people's experience of virtual environments.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very interesting anecdotes, but no thesis,
By A Customer
This review is from: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Paperback)
Turkle's thesis seems to be that cyberspace encourages us to explore new identities--not very controversial. However, she does provide a lot of interesting stories about life on the internet and the book is very well-written. I use her Introduction to start off my class in technology and it generates a lot of discussion.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The continuation of a fallacy.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Paperback)
Turkle's book is a good read, but can not be taken as authorative. She seems to have fallen into the same trap as most of the online researchers do. Turkle expresses her findings as though they come from a similar group of online people. The Internet is filled with various groups and ideologies. Cross-cultural comparison is fine, but considering everyone online as the starting point for an argument is just asking for disaster. It is because of this that Sherry and many others like her have written books that are good for a read but useless academically.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Computer mediated interaction from a psychological view.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Life On The Screen: Identity In The Internet: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Paperback)
This is quite heavy reading. After all, it is a researcher who has written it, and it shows (for instance, about one seventh of the book is notes). It took a while to get into, and even then it happened that I lost track when there were too much psychological references (I did better with the philosophical ones and, of course, with all the computer science stuff). So, what is this book about? It focuses on the human side of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Mediated Communication (by email, IRC, web-chats, MUDs and such). It addresses important and interesting questions like how ones own personality is affected if one on the net puts on another personality, or even another gender, and how ordinary people reacts to the question of artificial life - whether it is actually possible or not. Turkle shows that exploring and developing ones personality at the Internet can be both good and bad. Some people eases personal pains and overcome difficulties by experimenting with what they want to become, while others grew envious of the digital alter egos and are left feeling stuck in their real lifes. Very thought-provoking stuff! What I liked best, though, is that Turkle takes MUD and IRC dead seriously.
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