The Inner History of Devices

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