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identity in the age of the Internet
By Turkle, Sherry
- ISBN
- 978-0-68480-353-1
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 1995
This treatise by the best-selling author of The Second Self (LJ 6/15/84) explores the world of virtual identity on the Internet by examining "Multi-User Domains" (MUDs). Turkle describes MUDs as a new kind of "virtual parlor game" and a form of online community in which one's identity (both physical and behavioral) is represented by one's own textual description of it. She portrays MUDs...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
