Table of contents for The second self : computers and the human spirit / Sherry Turkle.


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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the MIT Press Edition (2004)  1
Introduction (1984): The Evocativq Object  17
Part I
Growing Up with Computers: The Animation of the Machine
1  Child Philosophers: Are Smart Machines Alive?  33
2  Video Games and Computer Holding Power 65
3  Child Programmers: The First Generation  91
4  Adolescence and Identity: Finding Yourself in the Machine  131
Part II
The New Computer Cultures: The Mechanization of the Mind
5  Personal Computers with Personal Meanings  155
6  Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself 183
7  The New Philosophers of Artificial Intelligence:
A Culture with Global Aspirations 219
8 I Thinking of Yourself as a Machine 247
9  The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture  279
Epilogue (2004): Changing the Subject and Finding the Object 287
Appendixes
A  On Method: A Sociology of Sciences of Mind  303
B  Children's Psychological Discourse: Methods and Data Summary  313
Notes 323
Index  359



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Computers, Electronic data processing Psychological aspects