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The Inner History of Devices (Paperback)
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The Inner History of Devices (Paperback)
Series: The Inner History of Devices
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Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives
on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how
technology enters the inner life. For more than two decades, in
such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen,
Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her
insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The
Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach
that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing
ourselves. She brings together three traditions of listening-that
of the memoirist, the clinician, and the ethnographer. Each informs
the others to compose an inner history of devices. We read about
objects ranging from cell phones and video poker to prosthetic
eyes, from Web sites and television to dialysis machines. In an
introductory essay, Turkle makes the case for an "intimate
ethnography" that challenges conventional wisdom. One personal
computer owner tells Turkle: "This computer means everything to me.
It's where I put my hope." Turkle explains that she began that
conversation thinking she would learn how people put computers to
work. By its end, her question has changed: "What was there about
personal computers that offered such deep connection? What did a
computer have that offered hope?" The Inner History of Devices
teaches us to listen for the answer. In the memoirs, ethnographies,
and clinical cases collected in this volume, we read about an
American student who comes to terms with her conflicting identities
as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan ("Tokyo sat
trapped inside it"); a troubled patient who uses email both to
criticize her therapist and to be reassured by her; a compulsive
gambler who does not want to win steadily at video poker because a
pattern of losing and winning keeps her more connected to the body
of the machine. In these writings, we hear untold stories. We learn
that received wisdom never goes far enough.
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