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S Chou

Brainstorms: Rheingold Interviews Turkle - 0 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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  • in this sense, he is within my view, even as I write alone.
  • hybrid
  • It feels liberating.
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      The use of the word liberating seems interesting. It suggests that Turkle sees the presentation of herself through writing is somehow different that in person. Furthermore, it makes us consider how even the medium (i.e. email) changes our sense for how we should present ourselves, even if the audience is the same.
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  • is a concretization of another way of thinking about the self, not as unitary but as multiple
  • What good parenting provides is a relational field in which we become increasingly expert at transitions between self states.
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      do you agree? Is this really the role of parenting?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - This is another way of saying that good parents take responsibility for socializing their children and teaching them to express themselves appropriately, right? In that case, yes.
  • One has a new context
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      I would strike context and put venue. The internet is a place to negotiate these transitions.
  • not in terms of constructing a one but of negotiatiating a many
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      I like this, though I am not sure I agree. I like the idea of thinking of the identity as multiple, but something inside me wants to think of it as one. One single identity with multiple expressions? Perhaps its just a semantic game, but one I am tempted to play.  Where do you stand on it?
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Brainstorms: Life on the Screen Excerpts - 1 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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  • the computer has become even more than tool and mirror
  • other people
  • But it is on the Internet that our confrontations with technology as it collides with our sense of human identity are fresh
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    Part of Mind to Mind with Sherry Turkle
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Brainstorms: Rheingold Interviews Turkle - 0 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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  • When you present yourself as a person of another gender, you quickly realize things about "being" that gender in social interactions that might have been invisible to you before.
  • deconstruct our simulations.
  • Cyberspace is a new arena for experimenting with social practice.
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Brainstorms: Rheingold Interviews Turkle - 0 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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  • It seems to me quite understandable that at moments when the unthinkable becomes possible, there are these dramatic paradoxes in our approach to issues -- but it means that when the paradoxes become apparent, technology is there to blame.
  • Computers and communication networks are not drugs.
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      Is Sherry dismissing important aspects of addition? It is not just the amount of a substance that makes it bad, it is also the way, context, and reason for why it is consumed. So it is possible to get addicted to the Internet in a way that is detrimental to your personal development. Each person will have a different amount of 'online' they can handle. We can think of it as tolerance, for which we each have a different threshold, and which our usage patterns help determine.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - I agree, you could make the argument that drugs are also complex channels that different people use in different ways. By saying that X amount of heroin use is never a good thing, she's operating out of the assumption that all drugs are necessarily bad in any amount, which is also not true. 
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  • The fear is of making too many of our encounters into transactions.
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S Chou

Brainstorms: Rheingold Mind to Mind with Sherry Turkle - 1 views

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community turkle identity presentation of self

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  • What is this activity doing to our minds?
  • object-to-think-with
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      What do you think about this "object-to-think-with" characterization? is it out of date now? does it still apply?  I content that this is not the case, computers and networks are not an "object-to-think-with", but perhaps an "object-to-think-through". We don't think WITH the machine, but rather a medium through which to convey our thoughts.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - that's an interesting distinction. I would agree that calculators seem much more like objects-to-think-with while computers allow for a much broader range of interactions including self expression. I think Turkle's point about the power of computers to shape and influence our thoughts still stands though. 
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    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      You are welcome to follow the links. Several are annotated with Diigo as well
  • Are we living life on the screen or in the screen?
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      this is a nice distinction. ON or IN. Where are you living yours?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - I like to think that I'm ON the screen because the idea of living IN the screen makes me uncomfortable, but I can't deny that the majority of my personal and professional interactions are now mediated through a screen. I'm sure that some of my relationships are more grounded now IN the screen purely out of necessity, I just hope that people don't confuse the two versions of me - to the extent that they're different to begin with. 
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