Editing Sherry Turkle (section)

==''The Second Self''==

In ''The Second Self'' (1984), Turkle defines the computer as more than just a tool, but part of our everyday personal and psychological lives.  She looks at how computers affect the way we look at ourselves and our relationships with others, claiming that technology defines the way we think and act.  Turkle's book allows us to view and reevaluate our own relationships with technology.

In her process of evaluating our relationships with computers, Turkle interviews children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers and personal computer owners in order to further understand our relationships with computers and how we interact with them on a personal level.  The interviews showed that computers are both a part of our selves as well as part of the external world.  In this book, Turkle tries to figure out why we think of computers in such psychological terms, how this happens and what this means for all of us.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/second-self |title=The Second Self |access-date=2016-04-22 |archive-date=2018-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125230837/https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/second-self |url-status=dead }}</ref>