Week 3 Reading - Sherry Turkle

'Turkle's own metaphor of windows serves well to introduce the following samplings from her new book. Those boxed-off areas on the screen, Turkle writes, allow us to cycle through cyberspace and real life, over and over. Windows allow us to be in several contexts at the same time - in a MUD, in a word-processing program, in a chat room, in e-mail' (Wired 2008)

What Turkle is saying here is very true to my experience of the internet. When I'm on the internet i always find myself opening up Facebook first and once i've done checking up on my updates, instead of closing the window down, i leave it open and add a tab to go onto another website. So no matter what i'm doing, i'm accessing 'several contexts at the same time'.

'Computer screens are the new location for our fantasies, both erotic and intellectual'. This also can be true. Everything can be accessed on the internet, from sex, shopping and millions of information at a central point. People can say things that they might not in real life because they can be whoever they want and access websites which keep they're anonymity, which means that if they do have a fantasy, they can explore it freely without being judged. At first glance this might seem beneficial, but lets not forget that there needs to be regulations.





Wired (2008) Who Am We? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/turkle.html