February 18, 1998
Who Am I When I Am Online?
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This lecture takes a provocative look at the parallel lives made possible online by the author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Sherry Turkle, a leading anthropologist of cyberspace, discusses how life on the Internet allows people to "play out" aspects of themselves in on-line communities, how people engage issues of identity through parallel lives.
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