{"product_id":"the-inner-history-of-devices-paperback-by-edited-by-sherry-turkle","title":"The Inner History of Devices Paperback by edited by Sherry Turkle","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eThe MIT Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2011-09-30)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e218\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780262516754\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, in such landmark studies as \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife on the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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?” \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices\u003c\/i\u003e teaches us to listen for the answer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), \u003ci\u003eLife on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eEvocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices,\u003c\/i\u003e all three published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita Say Chan is Assistant Research Professor of Communications in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute of Communications Research in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46552551555233,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780262516754","price":48.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780262516754.jpg?v=1781708262","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-inner-history-of-devices-paperback-by-edited-by-sherry-turkle","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}