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Self he Second The Second Self
The Second puters and the Human Spirit
Twentieth Anniversary puters and the Human Spirit
Sherry Turkle
In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at puter not as a “tool,” but as part of our social and
psychological lives; she looks beyond how we puter games and spreadsheets to explore
how puter affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship
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with the world. “Technology,” she writes, “catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we
think.” First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology
putation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades puter
culture—to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our
own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work
with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. Sherry Turkle
Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and -
puter owners—people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a
new way for us to think—about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her inter- “A brilliant and challenging
views reveal that we puters as being on the border between inanimate and animate, Turkle
as both an extension of the self and part of the external world. Their special place betwixt and discussion presented with
between traditional categories is part of what makes pelling and evocative. In the intro-
extraordinary clarity.” 820046 08/31/05
duction to this edition, Turkle quotes a PDA user as saying, “When my Palm crashed, it was like a
death. I thought I had lost my mind.” Why we think of the workings of a machine in psychological —Ch