Week 3 (required reading) Sheery Turkle who am we?

Some points of interest from the reading

• There are many persona s to us all example in the text: there is Turkle the social scientist, trained in anthropology, personality psychology and sociology. There is Dr Turkle the clinical psychologist. There is Sheery Turkle writer of books.
• Sherry Turkle's new book Life on the Screen tells how the computer profoundly shapes our ways of thinking and feeling how ideas are not just changing our live but changing our selves i think this point is very true as well changing our lives and ourselves it is too a growing addiction.
• Conversations quickly turn to multi personae, romance and what can be counted as 'real' virtual space.
• The internet links millions of people in new spaces that are changing the way we think and the way we form communities.
• Moving from "a modernist culture of calcualtion toward a postmodernist culture of simulation".
• we are the producer, director and star of our own online drama
• We are using new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, sexuality, politics and identity