Cyberspace & Identity

In "Network Space and Identity: E-Mail Revolution", Sherry Turkle is focusing on the virtual world. Turkle also focuses on the psychological impact of life in the virtual world on our present reality. Turkle is currently Professor Abby Rockefeller Mauzé of the Institute of Science, Technology and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is also the founder (2001) and current director of MIT Technology and Self Initiative (h), the center of research and reflection relating to the growing relationship between people and objects in identity construction.

In her article "Network Space and Identity", Sherry Turkle writes about the concept of multiple identities and analyzes how to increase them through cyberspace communication. Sherry Turkle (): "If traditionally the identity means 1, life in today's computer screens can help gamers rethink the reality, so diversity and video games will create identity You can regard it as an important tool for Internet dating site Match.com. The general business model requires a small subscription fee in exchange for the space to create your own profile. Display profiles: Other users usually use common interests and other parameters for compatible promotion lists and locations.

In her article "Network Space and Identity" (1999), Sherry Turkle says, "Today's life on the screen dramaes a series of cultural trends that encourage thinking about identity in terms of diversity and flexibility I will concretize it. " ) Turkle claims cyberspace and identity formation theory by juxtaposition with psychology, sociology, and old understanding of philosophical identity. Her goal is to present a reader's theory of cyberspace and identity, to assert that the identity is multiple and periodic rather than fall, making the audience reconsider our computer culture with us by deepening our understanding of the identity is. Relationship of psychoanalytical culture proudly has common citizenship "(278). Turkle's tone assumes that highly educated audiences are familiar not only with the theory of cyberspace and identity but also sociology and psychology.