Life on the screen : identity in the age of the Internet /
By carrying out nearly 2 decades of research into this subject & interviewing people about their experience of using computers, the author has produced an up-to-the-minute portrait of the new age of computers and our changing relationship with them.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
1997.
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| Edition: | 1st Touchstone ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : identity in the age of the Internet
- The seductions of the interface. A tale of two aesthetics ; The triumph of tinkering
- Of dreams and beasts. Making a pass at a robot ; Taking things at interface value ; The quality of emergence ; Artificial life as the new frontier
- On the Internet. Aspects of the self ; TinySex and gender trouble ; Virtuality and its discontents ; Identity crisis.