Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet Sherry Turkle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

(1995) “Life on the Screen; identity in the age of the Internet. This was a very interesting reading, especially because it was written in 1995. Alan suggests “immersion feelings” are modality dependent: I ascribe them Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995). The chapter draws parallels with the roles embodied by individuals in Life on the screen: Identity in the age of Internet. Jul 15, 2006 - Scholars of the internet often employ such rhetoric. Many years ago, back in the early days of the internet, online communities had a different look and feel. Nov 30, 2013 - Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, begins her discussion on identity in the digital age within the context of being flexible and adaptable to proceedings; she refers to this as “flexibility practicum”. In her book Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle acknowledges the potential to play with identity because the virtual environment “gives people the chance to express multiple and often unexplored aspects of the self, to play with their identity and to try out new ones” (12). Oct 25, 2010 - The creation of online identities is an issue that has been debated since the beginning of the network and the mass access to the Internet. Sep 4, 1997 - Life on the Screenis a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. Feb 6, 2010 - Life on the Screen. Nov 6, 2004 - Perhaps this lack of time-awareness renders the experience of online life as occurring in a different type of time to “normal” time, and helps reinforce historical vagueness (lack of group history) or “mythic” time in which succession is not fixed. (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet New York: Simon and Schuster. This gender play may make the constructed nature of gender performances more apparent and begin to denaturalize assumptions about identity performances in online and off-line settings. Oct 7, 2012 - Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet Intro/Chp1 by Sherry Turkle. There, she argued that the relationships people formed online could be as real and vital as ones in real life. Apr 3, 2012 - In the mid-1990s, Turkle wrote an influential book called Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle.